414 Miscellaneous InteUigence. 



The ore is carried by water to Quidah, a distance of several 

 days' journey. Here it is reduced, and the metal made into a 

 variety of fantastic forms ; some are small cakes of about 

 three pounds each, others are poultry, dogs, water-pots, caul- 

 drons, Sfc, of all sizes ; but more generally it is made into 

 slabs, of fifty, sixty, or eighty pounds, weight, or into balls, cy- 

 linders, or other convenient forms, aad with projecting parts or 

 handles by which to move them. — Aiiatic Journal, or Bombay 

 Gazette, July 7, ix. p. 33. 



4. On the Water-spout. — Sir, — Some years since whilst cruis- 

 ing off Prince's island, on the coast of Africa, I had an op- 

 portunity of observing a water-spout of singular size and 

 beauty ; it approached the sea, at an angle of about 45°, 

 until entering ajlarge cloud, it appeared to suffer considerable 

 refraction in its passage through it, for imraediately on leaving 

 that medium, it assumed a direction nearly perpendicular to 

 the horizon. The accompanying Paper is an extrtact of a 

 letter from a gentleman in the Azores, who, in giving an 

 interesting detail of the celebrated volcanic eruption of 1811, 

 seems to have thrown some light on the origin of the water- 

 spout, a phenomenon hitherto so little understood. — I am. 

 Sir, your obedient servant, 



7, High-row, KnighUbridge, ^ ^ Bagnold. 



June, 1 820. 



5. Account of the Formation of the Island of Sabrina off the 

 Island of St. Michael. — On Thursday morning, the 13th of June, 

 1811, at about half-past one o'clock, a strong shock of an 

 earthquake was felt at the city of Ponta Delgada, and for 

 nearly eight hours the shocks continued with more or less 

 violence, with intervals of from fifteen to twenty minutes between 

 each shock, and more particularly at the west end of the island, 

 where a number of cottages were thrown down, and other more 

 substantial buildings considerably injured. On Friday morning 

 a submarine volcano burst forth, about a mile from the shore, 

 to the N.N.W. \ W. of the Pico das Camarinhas, which threw 



