Snake with i wo Heads. — Geographical Inquiries. 231 



SCARLET FBVER. 



It is announced in the Journal de Medecine Pratique of Ber- 

 lin, that the Belladonna is a preservative against this fever. The 

 fact was first discovered at Leipsic, but it has lately been con- 

 firmed by several experiments. 



SNAKE WITH TWO HEADS. 



Dr. Corradori, at Ruto, in Tuscany, lately saw a snake with 

 two heads. Sometimes it happened that the heads differed as 

 to the use of their faculties : thus the one head would eat while 

 the other was asleep. 



POTATOES. 



Last year (says a writer in The Farmer's Journal), I planted 

 a. row of sets, cut out into single eyes, from large potatoes chosen 

 out of a heap ; the row was 25 yards in length : and next to it I 

 planted another row of equal length, from the smallest potatoes, 

 picked from the same heap : some of the latter were set whole, 

 and some cut in half. When I took them up, the former row 

 produced four bushels and a half of fine large potatoes, with 

 scarcely any small ones. The other row gave so few in measure 

 that they all went into a half-bushel scuttle, and were miserably 

 small. 



GEOGRAVHICAL INQUIRIES. 



Count Romanzow has fitted out two new expeditions from 

 Russia: one to endeavour to travel along the solid ice on the 

 coast of Tschutski from A'sia to America: the other to ascend 

 one of the rivers on the N.W. coast, in order to penetrate the 

 unknown space which is between ley Cape and Mackenzie's 

 River. 



DANGERS IN THE RED SEA. 



Mr. Editor, — Sir, — As I am convinced that you are ever 

 ready to give publicity to any communication where the safety of 

 lives and shipping is concerned, I shall, without apology, beg a 

 place for the insertion of the undermentioned dangers, discover- 

 ed by the Syren during her late voyage up and down the Red 

 Sea. Jan. 24, 1820. — A reef extending north and south about 

 600 yards, lat. 20=' 43' N. and long. 37° 36' E. by chronome- 

 ters. 



Jan. 31.— A reef in lat. 25'' 12' N. and long. 34" 56' E. by 

 chronometers. 



April 20.— A reef in lat. 24o 45' N. and long. 35" 8' E. by 

 chronometers. — A reef (a round spot), in lat. 24''5i'N. and 

 l«»ug. 3r»° 12' E. by chronometers. 



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