202 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Bruges, who procured some of the water, analyzed it, and have 

 published an account of it in the Annates Generates de Scietices 

 Physiques, published at Bruxelles. 144 oz,, evaporated to 4 oz., 

 became of a deep black colour, but deposited no precipitate. 

 It was neither acid nor alkaline ; sulphuric acid liberated chlo- 

 ric acid from it 1 nitrate of silver precipitated chloride of sil- 

 ver ; deuto-nitrate of mercury precipitated calomel ; hydro- 

 sulphuret of potash threw down a black precipitate, which was 

 reduced by heat to the metallic state. The liquor which had 

 been precipitated by the nitrate of silver, mixed with solution of 

 potash, gave a precipitate of a purple colour, which, properly 

 treated, yielded three grains of a hard brittle metal, of a 

 greyish-white colour, attracted by the magnet, and yielding, 

 with borax, a fine blue glass. Hence those chemists conclude, 

 that the acid was the chloric, (perhaps muriatic is meant,) the 

 metal cobalt; and the rain a solution of muriate of cobalt. 



There are many mistakes in this account, and we cannot re- 

 solve that the whole is not one : nevertheless, it is asserted that 

 the red rain fell all over the place, and that plenty of blue 

 glass has been made from its contents. — An7iales de Chimie, 

 xii. p. 431. 



5. On the night of the 2d and 3d of November, coloured 

 rain also fell at Schweningen, of a red colour. It is described 

 as having had the taste of filings of iron, mixed with sulphur. 



6. Fall of Black Powder from the Air. — During the night of 

 Tuesday, 1 6th November, there fell, in the township of Brough- 

 ton. North America, on the south shore, so great a quantity of a 

 black powder, as completely to cover the snow which was then 

 on the ground. 



7. Temperature in India. — The following short meteorological 

 journal may be interesting, from having been kept in a part of 

 the world, from whence there are not many observations, and, in 

 a low latitude. It contains an instance of the sudden diminu- 

 tion of temperature, which is said frequently to occur in India 

 at the moment of sun-rise. 



