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On the 29th it did not rain, and the young swarm again were 

 nn the move, continuing their depredations ; they were fast in- 

 creasing in size, and equally lively as before the rain. 



It again rained on the 30th, and again the locusts took shelter 

 on the trees and fences ; several large flights of locusts passed 

 over the cantonments, and I observed that the wings of the 

 young ones began to appear. The head still retained the dark 

 red colour, but the black lines on the body had become much 

 fainter. 



Again on the 31st large flights continued to pass, driven by 

 the wind to the southward; of course very few alighted. They 

 caused little mischief within our view. The wings of the young 

 tribe (the whole four being now formed) were about one-eighth 

 of an inch in length. After this time I made no particular ob- 

 servations on their progress, being otherwise engaged, but they 

 disappeared in a few days*. 



A curious case has recently been communicated to Dr. 

 Thomas Forster, of three children successively being born of 

 the same mother, and each of them having five fingers and a 

 thumb on each hand. They are the sons of a labouring man 

 in Buckinghamshire, and the family are in all other respects 

 healthy. The extra finger was situated on the outside of the 

 little finger and on the same bone. It was in all the three cases 

 amputated close to the joint during the first three days of in- 

 fancy, and there is no apparent defect left on the hand. These 

 sorts of monstrosities frequently are hereditary, and appear again 

 and again in successive generations of the same family. But in 

 the present case, no traces can be found of any thing of the 

 kind having happened in the family before. 



bakers' bread. 

 A recent investigation into the composition of London bakers' 

 bread, on the part of some chemical gentlemen, has led to the 

 detection of a quantity of alum contained in it, and of some 

 potass; a circumstance which accounts for the constipating 

 effects of this bread on the bowels. Our readers will find a cu- 

 rious account of the adulteration of bread, under the article 

 Baking, in the Sttpf). to Encyc. Britannica. 



NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS. 



To Mr. Tilloch. 

 Sir, — I would call the attention of your numerous nautical 



* These extraordinary facts are communicated to us by an intelligent 

 corrc>pondent, who with some of the ofliccis of the llfh Native Infantry 

 W4! an eye witness. — Ed, of Cak: ^h^. 



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