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its length projected beyond the jaw. Sir Joseph has had 

 this tooth sawed in two lengthways and polished, by which 

 its internal organization is finely shown. It was stated that 

 this tooth was lately found on the surface of the great clay 

 stratum near Ealing, or Acton, in Middlesex, about 16 feet 

 beneath a bed of gravel. 



BEET-ROOT SUGAR. 



Late experiments made at Berlin have, ascertained that the 

 yellow beet-root (beta lutea) yields more than double the 

 quantity of sugar that any other species of that vegetable 

 affords. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The following extraordinary event took place on the 4th 

 of May last at Assmanshausen, in the electorate of Mentz : 

 — About three o'clock in the morning the earth was heard to 

 crack with a most dreadful noise : everv body was alarmed, 

 but nobody knew the cause. At day-light it was perceived 

 that the high mountain near the vdlage had opened about 

 the breadth of a hand, and about eight o'clock it extended 

 to about seven or eight inches. Between two and three 

 o'clock in the afternoon a considerable part of the mountain 

 fell down, and covered four houses, the inhabitants of which 

 had fortunately escaped. 



Owing to the cold on the night of Wednesday, the 14th 

 of May, several hundreds of the swallow tribe, called mar- 

 tins, had clunglto the toll table against the turnpike house 

 at Whalley, in Yorkshire : those again had others covering 

 them four or five feet in thickness, all of whom seemed quite 

 in a torpid state. Several dozens were stroked off the board, 

 and those taken up appeared completely lifeless ; until about 

 seven o'clock on Thursday morning, when the sun's warmth 

 caused re-animation, and they gradually moved off to the 

 water-side, a distance of about 30 yards. In a short time 

 afterwards they be nan to skim the surface of the water, and 

 flv with the usual vigour of those bird-;. 



Ml TJ 



