232 Prussian Travellers.— Stores, and Water-Spouts. 



full attainment of the object proposed. Captain Kotzebue's 

 destination is to Rio Janeiro, round Cape Horn to Kamts- 

 chatka, wiiere he will find further instructions, which are to 

 be forwarded over-land through Siberia. 



PRUSSIAN TRAVELLERS. 



Drs. Ehrenberg and Hemprich, Prussian naturalists now 

 travelling in Egypt, are not expected, as some journals have 

 stated, to return mimediately to Europe. On the contrary, 

 they were, according to the last accounts from them, about to 

 avail themselves of the assistance afforded by His Majesty for 

 a new expedition. Tiieir plan, as described in a letter dated 

 Suez, June 8, is as follows : In the first place to proceed along 

 the coast of the Red Sea, making their longest halt^at Tor 

 and Abaka. They will afterwards embark for Mocca, whence 

 they will make excursions on the coast of Abyssinia, and in 

 the islands situated near Ral and Nandel. Hence they mean 

 to proceed to Suakin, and, if circumstances permit, to penetrate 

 ao-ain into Nubia and Sennaar, to examine those fertile coun- 

 tries with which they had acquired a slight acquaintance on 

 their former journey, but only by skimming the frontiers. They 

 wish to return to Cairo by Cosseyr and Ginch. We have 

 already received from them thirty lai-ge packing-cases, con- 

 taining valuable articles collected during their voyage in Nubia, 

 and which furnish most interesting information on countries 

 hitherto very little known. What curiosities they have since 

 collected have been embarked for Trieste, and we expect to 

 receive them before the end of the present year. From the 

 researches of these zealous and intelligent travellers, we expect 

 important results for the study of natural history and geo- 

 graphy. — Berlin Paper. 



VIOLENT STORMS, AND WATER-SPOUTS. 



On August 26, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the sudden 

 heat of the atmosphere announced an approaching storm, 

 which showed itself coming from the S.E. over the village of 

 Boncourt (Canton of Anet), and not far fi-om thence a remark- 

 ably large water-spout made its appearance. Its base touched 

 the earth, and its summit was lost in the clouds. It was 

 formed of a dense dark vapour, and flames frequently darted 

 through its centre. In its course onwards, it tore up or broke 

 the trees for a space of a league, destroying between seven and 

 eight hundred trees, and at length burst with vast impetuosity 

 on the village of Marchefroy, destroying in an instant one 

 half of the houses. The walls were shaken to their foundations, 

 and crumbled down in every direction; they were torn off 



and 



