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Limax and other mollusces very abundant in the polar seas, 
~ whilst these in their turn, are devoured by the various spe- 
cies of whales that inhabit the same regions. 
8. Abbeville department of Somme France.—Fossil re- 
mains.—There have just been found in several sand pits in 
the neighbourhood of this town, the bones of Elephants and 
Rhinoceros, Stagg’s horns, and teeth of a carnivorous animal 
_ which M. Traule of that town regards as those of the Lion. 
These remains have been found at the depth of twenty-five - 
feet detached and mutilated. They consist of an elephant’s 
tusk, an atlas and a metatarsus of the Rhinoceros. he en- 
closure of these fossils is a bed of sharp grained sand. 
9. Singular disease.—T he workmen of a cotton manufacto- 
ry at Argues, near Dieppe, were attacked in the beginning of 
February last with nausea, vertigo and Midian which 
so much affected their imaginations, that they thought they 
saw spectres and other fantastic objects flying at them and 
seizing them by the throat. The Doctor not being able in 
time to calm their troubled brains, the villagers and country 
people did not fail to declare according to custom that 2 was 
owing to a spell that had beencast upon themat the manufactory. 
A thousand ridiculous ceremonies were performed to make 
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threats, and the fear of being dismissed and thereby losing 
their means of subsistence, tended at length to restore them 
to reason. . 
A memoir on the causes of this malady has been pre- 
sented to the medical society of Dieppe by M., Nicolle, an 
apothecary of that town, which contains a very exact and 
curious recital of the distinguishing traits of these spasmodic 
affections. The author attributes them to the gaseous oxide 
of carbon, resulting from the decomposition of the oil by the 
heat of a cast iron stove on which they were in the habit of 
plating their vessels of that fluid. This gaseous product as 
1s well known, is lighter than the atmosphere, and in this 
way the author accounts for the fact, that it was in the upper 
stories of the manufactory that the people were first affected 
