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THK ADRIATIC. 



A very extensive survey of the shores of the Adriatic has been 

 completed by Captain Smith of the Aid frigate. Several 

 Austrian officers were employed at the same time, who have pro- 

 ceeded to Vienna with the result of their labours. 



NORTHERN EXPEDITION. 



The Hecla and Griper, by the last accounts received, had 

 reached 86°. [Is there no mistake in this ?] In Baffin's Bay 

 they had fallen in with an immen'se mass of ice, which appeared 

 to be formed upon a solid rock. Th.e sea to the north of this 

 huge mass presented the appearance of a lake perfectly free 

 from ice. None of the inhabitants that they met with seemed 

 to have seen or heard of the former expedition under Captain 

 Ross. Report says that it seems to be the opinion of these 

 voyagers that there is no northern outlet from Baffin's Bay. 



The bottle, No. 2, thrown overboard by Captain Ross, oi" His 

 Majesty's ship Isabella, on the od of June, 1S18, hit. 65. 40. N. 

 long. 54. 10. W. of Greenwich, to ascertain the direction of the 

 current in Davis's Straits, was found by one of the servants of 

 A. Macdonald, Esq, at Balranald, North Uist, ou the 17th of 

 July last, and the paper inclosed in it quite dry; so that it was 

 13 months and 14 days on its passage ; the latitude of Balranald 

 is about 57. 20. N. The paper has been transmitted to the Ad- 

 miralty, agreeably to their request. 



EARTHaUAKES. 



Corfu, lllh Sept. 

 On the 4th of this month, at 9 o'clock in the evening, we had 

 here such a violent shock of an earthquake that in an instant the 

 bells of all the churches began to ring. As this happened in forty 

 churches at once, it may be supposed what horror was excited ; 

 the inhabitants rushed out of their houses, and several buildings 

 were damaged ; the air was quite serene, and the moon shone 

 bright. We expect now that we shall hear of an eruption of 

 Vesuvius or Etna, as earthquakes in this country are usually 



ascribed to such eruptions. 



Comrie, Perthshire, Nov. 29. 

 Yesterday morning, about half-past one, this place was visited 

 by one of the most alarming siiocks of an earth(|uake felt here 

 for ten years past. It not only awakened the people, but its 

 violence made some instinctively leap from their beds and run to 

 the door before they were aware of the cause of their panic. 

 The convulsion, accompanied with the usual hollow grumbling 

 noise, resembling the sound of distant thunder, continued for 

 about ten seconds, occasioning, while passing immediately under 

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