Meteorology. '-^'Medical Notice. 28^ 



comrades in the boat heard his cries, and went immediately 

 to his affiRance, but too late, an immenfe fnake having 

 cruiiied him to death. Theie people knowing that this kind 

 of fnake never diverts its attention from the prey which it 

 has once fcized until it is devoured, went boldly up to the 

 fnonfter and cut its head off, carrying it and the body of the 

 deceafcd on board their boat. The gentleman to whom we 

 are indebted for this account, faw both the next morning ; 

 and found, on examining the latter, that the fnake had feized 

 the unhappy man by the right wriil, where the marks of the 

 animal's fangs were very diftin6t; and the mangled corpfe 

 bore evident figns of having been cruflied, by the fnake tvv'ift- 

 ing itfelf round the head, neck, breaft, and thigh. Our cor- 

 refpondent extended the jaws of the fnake, ftiffas they were, 

 wide enough to admit a bodv the iize of a man's head ; and 

 the whole length of the animabis defcribed to have been from 

 about 28 to 30 feet, and equal in circumference to a mode- 

 rate fized man. By the account of the furvivors, this kind of 

 fnake fwallows men and bullocks, after having cruflied them, 

 as in this inftance; which our friend, judging from the ca- 

 pacity of the jaWs in the ftate in which he faw them, found 

 no difficulty in believing! and this furnifhes a proof that 

 fimilar fai^ls, itated by certain naturalifts, to which many 

 have refufed their belief, are entitled to more deference thaa 

 they generally meet with." 



METEOROLOGY. 



The heat of the prefent fummer has been very great, and 

 much more uniform and uninterrupted than for many pre- 

 ceding years. During the afternoon of feveral days this 

 month, the thermometer in the neighbourhood of London, 

 expofed in a northerly afpeft, was as high as 86° of Fahr. 

 In London it was higher, owing to the heat refleiSled from 

 the furrounding buildings. 



MEDICAL NOTICE. 



Profcflbr Calllfen, of Copenhagen, read lately before the 



Royal Medical Society a paper in which he (liowed that the 



external ufe of boiling water, in cafes of internal inflamma- 



7 iioTi, 



