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tion to the distance from the surface, were fully borne out by 

 the observation of M. Schargin, and almost exactly in the same 

 ratio as hitherto found. Captain Back stated, that in his many 

 years' experience in the cold regions of North America, even 

 in the height of an Arctic summer, he had never found the 

 ground thawed more than four feet below the surface ; but that 

 experiments on the subject were very much to be desired. 



6. Mummy in a Peat-Moss. — Among the curiosities recently 

 added to the Museum of the Royal Society of Northern Anti- 

 quities at Copenhagen, there is one of a singular nature and 

 great historical interest. It is the mummy of a female, found 

 in a peat-bog near Haraldskioer, in Jutland, completely 

 sunk in the soft ground, and fastened to a stake by means 

 of clamps and hooks. The fragments of clothing that re- 

 mained on the mummy enable the skilful antiquarians of the 

 north to conclude, with tolerable certainty, that it belongs to 

 the last period of paganism ; and M. Peterson has endeavoured, 

 in an able historical essay, to prove that the mummy is the 

 body of Gunnhilda, Queen of Norway, whom King Harald 

 Blaatand enticed, by promise of marriage, to come to Denmark 

 in 965, when he put her to death by sinking her in a bog. — 

 Athenaum, No. 540, p. 1G8. 



6. Further Discovery of Fossil Remains of' Quadrumana in 

 India. — In a former volume of this Journal, we gave an 

 account of the discovery of fossil remains of a quadrumanous 

 animal in France ; afterwards of the finding of similar remains 

 in India, which, we have now to remark, were discovered long 

 before it was known that similar remains occurred in the strata 

 of Europe. We have hitherto received no particulars as to 

 the more recent discoveries in India, further than that three 

 new fossil species have been dug out of the Sivalic tertiary 

 strata. 



7. The Waterfall of GlomacJi, in the Parish of Kintail^ in 

 the County of Ross and Cromarty. — In this parish there is one 

 of the highest and finest waterfalls in the kingdom, well known 

 in the district by its appropriate name, Glomach. It is situated 

 in a remote and uninhabited valley, on the estate of Mr 

 M'Kenzie of Applecross, and about seven miles from the inn 

 of Sheal house. It merits a special notice in a national work 

 of this kind, and will most amply reward any fatigue the tra« 



