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from six to ten feet deep. Several fir blocks 
have been thrown up by the floating peat. 
We presume that some subterranean 
stream, swollen by the late rains, which 
may have penetrated to its channel through 
shallow and pervious soil, has burst, through 
its usual boundaries, risen to the surface, 
and hurried the boggy matter in its preci- 
pitate course from its former site. 
Machinery.—Mr. Owen calculates that 
200 arms, with machines, now manufacture 
as much cotton as 20,000,000 of arms were 
able to manufacture without machines forty 
years ago; and that the cotton, now manu- 
factured in the course of one year in Great 
Britain, would require, without machines, 
16,000,000 of workmen with simple wheels. 
He calculates farther, that the quantity of 
manufactures of all sorts, at present pro- 
duced, by British workmen, with the aid of 
machines, is so great, that it would require, 
without the assistance of machinery, the 
labour of four hundred millions of work- 
men. 
Mr. Moorcroft.—This enterprizing tra- 
veller has been detained long at Kash- 
meer, in consequence of the manceuyres 
of Runjeet Singh; but, in August last, 
he was enabled to prosecute his ven- 
turous journey. In passing through the 
country of the Khuttaks, Mr. Moorcroft met 
with very eonsiderable difficulty, and not a 
little danger—enough, indeed, to have ap- 
palled almost any other traveller. The 
chief of this tribe is an ally of Runjeet Singh, 
and made an attempt to cut off Mr. M. 
and his party, by intercepting their pro- 
gress, at the head of a river, which was 
almost dry. In this, however, they failed, 
owing to the determined and spirited con- 
duct displayed by Mr. Moorcroft. Although 
the Affghauns were seven hundred in num- 
ber, and our traveller could only muster 
a party of thirty, he prepared to force 
his way through them: when these ‘ bold 
mountaineers ’ took to their heels'and scam- 
pered off. Mr. Moorcroft and his party were 
all well in April, at Peshour. He had made 
several excursions into the neighbouring 
country, and obtained much useful infor- 
mation with regard toa species of horse, 
which, it is thought, might, with great ad- 
vantage, be introduced into the ee 
stud. 
Mr. C.J. Fair, editor of the Bombay 
Gazette, has been ordered to leave India, 
and has finally been placed on board the 
H. C. ship London. The offence is an 
alleged misrepresentation, in the Gazette 
of 28th July, Of transactions in the Su- 
preme Court. 
Cha Lang Kae; or, a Chinese Dinner.— 
On the 19th June, Mr. Haki, a most re- 
spectable Chinese merchant of this city, 
entertained the whole of the European mer- 
chants, as well as the military officers of the 
settlement, with a grand cha lang kae. "The 
ehoice and luxuriant viands, selected by 
him, were entirely @ /a mode Chinvise ; and 
[Mar. 1, 
a better or more abundant table we have 
never seen, even at a cha lang kae in Can- 
ton. The bird-nest soup .was. admirable, 
as well as the six other soups of mutton, 
frogs, and duck liver.. We could not but 
partake of almost the whole of the dishes, 
and we did ample justice to an excellent 
hasher made of stewed elephants’: tails, 
served up with sauce of lizard’s eggs. 
We also noticed particularly that some 
French gentlemen present seemed to eat, 
with particular gotit, of a stewed porcupine, 
served up in the green fat of a turtle: the 
beech de mar was excellent, as well as the 
fish maws served up with sea-weed. There 
was also a dish novel to the party, and we 
have only seen it, once, at the great kinqua 
feast in Canton; the expense of this dish, 
alone, was estimated at 200 dollars ; it con- 
sisted of a platter-full of snipes’ eyes, gar- 
nished round with peacocks’ combs, and, it 
is said, was the most delicious and delicate 
viand ever tasted. 
The Aborigines of New Holland are de- 
scribed, by the settlers, as a race between 
the negro of the east coast of Africa and 
the Malay of the Indian Archipelago. They 
are believed to be cannibals, and are sunk 
into the lowest depths of ignorance and bar- 
barism. Their arms are the spear, which 
they use expertly, a stone hatchet, a club 
and a crooked wooden missile, called 
womra. They possess a keenness of sight 
and hearing, and a facility of tracking their 
prey or an enemy, which seem to resemble 
animal instinct. 
At the fire in. the Bazar, Boulevard des 
Italiens, at Paris, on the night of New 
Year’s day, many of the antiquities col. 
lected by Belzoni, in Egypt, were de- 
stroyed. 
Persian and Hindostanee Proverbs, tran- 
slated into English by the late Captain 
Roebuck, have been published at Calcutta, 
in an 8yo. volume. 
WORKS IN THE PRESS. 
Northern Regions; or, a Relation of 
Uncle Richard’s Voyages for the Discovery 
of a North Passage; and his account of 
the Overland Journies of his enterprizing 
Friends,—is nearly ready for publication. 
The Journal of an Exile, descriptive of 
the Scenery and Manners of some interest- 
ing parts of France, especially among the 
Peasantry, in two volumes, is preparing 
for publication, and expected to appear in 
the early part of this month. 
A gentleman of distinguished talent, 
long resident in that country, is about to 
publish the result of his observations among - 
the higher orders there, under the title of 
“The English in Italy:” the work is to 
extend to 3 volumes, and to be ready in 
April. 
The Historical and Literary Tour of a 
Foreigner, in England and Scotland, with 
Anecdotes of celebrated persons, visited by 
the Author, including most of the Lage 
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