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which he discovered traces . pier a but saw no peo- 
two dred miles of the presumed 
site of the lost colony. He “Bas nccuimaly surveyed the 
coast from lat. 75° to 69° including nearly 800 geographi- 
cal miles of the indented coast. e finds an error in the 
position of the land in lat. 74°, as laid down in charts, of 
about 15°, or 900 miles of longitude. In August 182] he 
found the weather oppressively hot, and the air swarmed 
with bees, butterflies and musquitoes. The coast was high- 
ly picturesque, but it was seldom that the ice eer him 
to approach nearer than 15 eae from the shore 
d, Philos. Jour. San "1823. 
9. On the limits of the occurrence of Fishes in high situa- _ 
ttons.—According to Raymond, the only fishes that occur 
in the waters of the Pyrenees, at heights of from 1000 to 
1162 toises are Salmo trutta, S. Fario and S. Alpinus. 
Higher up all fishes disappear. The water Salamander 
ceases to live at the height of 1292 toises ; probably be- 
cause the higher lakes are half the year frozen. But cold 
is not the sole cause of the disappearance of fishes in high 
altitudes, since Humboldt mentions that in the equatorial 
regions of America, where the mean temperature of the 
aézing point begins 1500 toises higher than in the Pyre- 
nees, the fishes disappear earlier in lakes and rivers. No 
Trouts occur in the Andes. At a height of 1400 or 1500 
toises there still occur Pocilien, Pimelodes, and ver 
remarkable new form Evemophilus and Astroblepus. Un- 
der the equator, from 1800 to 1900 toises, where the mean 
temperature is still +9° 5’ cent., and where few lakes ever 
freeze, fishes are no longer met with, with the exception of 
the remarkable Pymelodes Cyclopum, which are thrown 
out in thousands with the clay-mud, ay from rien 
in the rocks, at the height of 2500 toises. These fishes 
live in subterranean lakes:i— 
10. Todine.—After the beneficial results * obtained. by 
Dr. Coindet, from the use of Iodine in the cure of Goitre, 
the Clinical Institute of the Royal University of Padua, 
ave used it with a view of different effects. They detail 
the cases of persons submitted to its action, and conclude 
