iipcm the Coasts of the Sea, <§•(-. 149 



1570.— A violent tempest carried ofiF half of the village of Scheveniiigen to 

 the north-east of the Haye. 



1625 The sea detached a portion of the peninsula of Dars, in former Swe- 

 dish Pomerania, and formed of it the island of Zuigst, to the north of 

 Barth. 



1634.— An irruption of the sea covered the whole island of Nordstrand; 

 1338 houses, churches, and towers were destroyed ; 6408 persons, and 

 50,000 head of cattle perished. Of this island, once so fertile and 

 flourishing, there only remained the three islets named Pel worm, 

 Nordstrand, and Lutze-Moor. 



1703-1746 — During this period the sea carried off, from the island of Kadz- 

 and, more than 100 fathoms of its dikes. 



1726. — A violent tempest changed the salt-marsh of Araya, in the province 

 of Cumana, a part of Colombia, into a gulf several leagues in breadth. 



I77O-I785 The currents and storms formed a canal between the high part 



and the low part of the island of Heligoland, and converted that 

 island, which, before the eighth century, was so extensive, into two 

 islets. 



1784. — ^According to M. Hoff, a violent tempest formed the lake of Aboukir 

 in Lower Egypt. 



1 791-1 793 New irruptions of the sea destroyed the dikes and carried off 



other parts of the already so reduced island of Nordstrand. 



1803. — The sea carried off the last ruins of the priory of Crail in Scotland. 



Notice of a Memoir read by Dr Hibbert to the Scottish So- 

 ciety of Antiquaries, on the Caves occupied by the early In- 

 Imhitants of the West of Europe ; with illustrations of some 

 still remaining in France and Italy. 



VJk Hibbert commenced by stating that hia paper had for its 

 object, to prove that natural caves were the temporary resort of 

 the earhest and rudest inhabitants of Europe ; that even at a more 

 advanced stage of civihzation, caves had been used for human 

 habitations ; that, in certain localities, they had afforded pro- 

 tection to the chiefs and vassals of the feudal times ; and that 

 even at the present day, vi^hoie villages of Troglodytes might be 

 found in the civilized countries of the CoHtinent. The subject 

 of caves had lately attracted considerable notice on the Conti-« 

 ncnt ; but more on the part of the geologist than of the anti- 

 ([uarian. It had been incontrovertibly established, that, in the 

 caves in the South of France, human remains had been found 

 along with bones of different mammifcra". As the particular 



