On the Neio Insular Volcano, named Hotham Island. 3T3 



spreading high and wide; then succeeds rapidly the eruption of 

 cinders and lava, thrown to the height of from 400 to 500 feet, 

 and on some occasions to 1000 feet, forking and branching out 

 in all directions in its ascent, and afterwards falling and pouring 

 down in stupendous masses, with such violence as to cause a noise 

 like heavy thunder, and making the sea, for a considerable dis- 

 tance around, one entire sheet of foam — altogether a sight not 

 to be imagined." 



Malta, August 4. — Our reports respecting the volcano, since 

 the foregoing, are very unsatisfactory. There can be little 

 doubt, however, that the island continues to increase in size. A 

 boat, with five or six officers, returned yesterday afternoon, and 

 they assert that the island is at least three miles in circumference, 

 and from 200 to 300 feet high. They landed upon it, and, for 

 ostentation's sake I suppose, hoisted the Union flag. The other 

 stories, as to the increasing dimensions of the place, are too vague 

 to speak on. 



We learn from the coast of Sicily, that the town of Sciacca 

 has been entirely abandoned by its inhabitants, the reported 

 sliocks, and trembling of the earth, leading to a belief that it will 

 sink into the sea. 



Notice of Plants observed in an Excursion made hy Dr Graham 

 •with part of his Botanical Pupils, accompanied by a Jexo 

 Friends, in August last. 



A HE greater number of the party went to Forfar, and from 

 thence through the valley of Clova. One division then crossed 

 the Capel Munth, and went by Glen Meik and Abergeldie to 

 Castleton of Braemar ; another followed the White Water to its 

 source, and crossing the ridge to Glen Callader, proceeded down 

 that valley to Castleton. A few gentlemen went by the steam- 

 boat to Aberdeen, and thence up the Dee to Braemar. From 

 this, as our head-quarters, we walked in various divisions to 

 Glen Callader, Ben-na-buird, Lochnagar, and the hills around 

 the head of Glen Shee. Some went through Glen Tilt to Blair, 

 others returned by Clova to Edinburgh, having been absent 

 from the 29th July to 10th August. The weather was clear, 

 calm, and intensely hot, with occasionally very heavy thunder 



