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ning and a rumbling noise like thunder, emitting burning 

 clous and isjnited stones, ^vhich were thrown a considerable 

 height, and to a distance of 100 fathoms. Next a clear 

 flame made its appearance, whicli spread a disagreeable 

 smell, and blazed for an hour and a half. The eruption 

 occupied one half of the lake, forming a hill of ten fathoms 

 ia height, and 300 in circumference. 



Rome, Oct. 29. 

 The eruptions of Mount Vesuvius have ceased. The fol- 

 lowing fact may deserve the attention of naturalists : — ^The 

 English ship of the line vi^hich lies before Naples, changing 

 its position during the time of an eruption, one of the an- 

 chors, when drawn up, was found to be so hot that the 

 sailors could scarcely touch it. Does not this prove that 

 the principal source of the volcano is under the sea? 



VACCINATION. 



Dr. Valentin, of Paris, is said to have adopted the fol- 

 lowing method of inoculating the cow-pock : — He collects 

 a quantity of the dried vaccine pustules or incrustations, 

 which he reduces to powder, and forms into a kind of paste 

 with water. With this substance he inoculates his sub- 

 jects, by means of a^ lancet, in the usual way. W. B- 



LONGEVITY. 



Lately died at Gloves, near Athcnry, Ireland, of a short 

 illness, Mr. Denis Coorobee, of Ballindangen, aged 117, 

 a truly honest man. He retained his faculties to the last, 

 and, until two days previous to his death, he never remem- 

 bered to have any complaint or sickness whatever (tooth- 

 ache only excepted). Three weeks before his death he 

 walked from his house to GaUvay, and back the same day, 

 which is £6 miles. He could, to the last, read' the smallest 

 print without the assistance of glasses, which he never ac- 

 customed himself to, with as much ease as a boy of sixteen. 

 He was a man of strong natural powers; and, as he followed 

 husbandry, the results of his long experience, as might 

 naturally be expected, were highly useful in improving agri- 

 culture. It is upwards of seventy years since he propagated 

 that most useful article the black potatoe. 



He was married seven limes: the last time when he was 

 ninety-three years of age. By his different wives he had 

 48 children. His descendants by these were 236 grand 

 children, 944 great grand children ; and 2.5 great great 

 grand children," the oldest of whom Is four years of age. 

 His youngest son by his last marriage is now about eigh- 

 teen years old, 



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