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that the Virginian red maple, or filver-lcaved maple [acer 

 ruhriivi)y gives more fugar than the fugar-maple [acer Jac- 

 charinum) ; which is the more fortunate, as the latter with- 

 ftands better the cold of an European winter. The Profeflbr 

 adds, that attempts are making in Brandenburg to cultivate 

 this tree, and that feeds have been ordered from America, 

 but they have not yet arrived. 



ERUPTION QF THE PEAK OF TEXF.RIFP. 



Fleurieu lately announced to the National Inflitute, that 

 ft fea-captain had aftu^lly feen the Peak of Teneriffthrowinfr 

 up fire. According to La Cepede, no eruption from the 

 Peak has taken place for 400 years. . Fleurieu himfelf had 

 often feen fmoke arife from it, and found the earth near the 

 crater fomewhat warm. 



TORNADO. 



The following account of a phenomenon of this kind 

 which took place at Whitelaw, in the parifli of Ednam 

 Berwickfhire, on the 3d inftant, is copied from the Kelfo 

 Mail :— 



" The weather through the day had been calm, with foft 

 fliowcrs. At feven o'clock in the evening there was obfervcd 

 by many people, .a little to the fouth-weii of Mr. Tod's houfe 

 at Whitelaw, a denfe light-coloured cloud of a very uncom- 

 mon appearance. It refcmbled an inverted cone, reachinjr 

 from the ground to a confiderable height in the atmofphere. 

 Its motion towards the houfe was flow and majeftic; a nerfon 

 of no great agility, on feeing it approach, could eafily have 

 efcapcd from it. It began at length to whirl round with great 

 rapidity, accompanied by a loud rattling noife. The effe6l of 

 its amazing power was firtt exhibited upon a large ftack of 

 ftraw in the barn-yard, which it raifed in one mafs to a confi- 

 derable height in the air. A beam of timber, lying flat on 

 the ground, was hurled from its place feveralfeei; and it will 

 be thought alniofi. to exceed credibility when it is mentioned 

 thai this beam was 33 feet long. Small Hones were heaped 



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