208 M. Arago on Graham Island. 



of soulevement or upraising already suggested — that the highly 

 inclined planes of the submerged portion were the uplifted bed 

 of the sea — that it was composed of strata which had been cooled 

 for ages, and the whole anomaly is at an end. 



The following are some additional results culled from M. 

 Lapierre''s journal, and which seem to corroborate the preceding 

 views : — 



The surface of the ocean was found ata temperature of 73°4 Fah. 

 At the depth of one fathom it was also found at 73°4! 

 At the depth of ten fathoms it was found to be only 70°0 

 At the depth of thirty fathoms it was found to be only 67°0 

 Once more, continued M. Arago, in drawing this verbal com- 

 munication to a close, these views will probably be brought 

 from the region of simple conjecture, when the whole of the 

 thermometrical observations which have been made in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the new island shall have been published ; and 

 when, in addition, the maximum influence which a small perma- 

 nent island, similarly circumstanced, exercises on the sea, shall 

 have been determined ; as, for example, that of the island Pan- 

 telaria. To urge forward these observations and publications 

 is the anxious wish of the learned Secretary. 



On the Stony Matters which are emploijed in China in the time 

 of Famine, under the name of Flour of Stone. By M. 



BlOT. 



The details which were communicated to the Academy of 

 Sciences by M. de Humboldt concerning the existence of a stony 

 substance, which is sometimes employed in Lapland, in the time 

 of dearth, have recalled to my recollection the notice of a simi- 

 lar fact which has lately reached us from China, and which 

 was reported in the correspondence of the missionaries. My 

 son having likewise found the same fact, attested at many diffe- 

 rent periods in ihe Japanese Encyclopedia, with the dates at- 

 tached, I requested him to translate the passages which related 

 to the subject ; and it has occurred to me that the Academy 

 would regard with interest the collection of these documents 



