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in the Nile, which were all passed, however, with very small loss 
either of vessels or people, He remarks an error in Bruce’s map. 
Bruce makes the Dender fall into the Rahb, and the latter into 
the Nile ; whereas both these rivers fall mto the Nile, the Den- 
der fifteen miles above the Rahb. Where Bruce wrote accord- 
ing to the information of the inhabitants, and did not see with 
his own-eyes, no confidence can be placed in him ; for the people, 
says M, Zuccoli, are so ignorant that they hardly know where 
the sun rises and sets. They cannot distinguish north from south. 
He thinks he has found the island of Meroe in the slip of land 
between the Dender and the Rahb, where he discovered 45 py- 
ramids covered with hieroglyphics. He met here with M, Cail- 
laud and his companion, who followed another army under Ismail 
Pacha, another son of the Viceroy’s. He waited for the armed 
vessels, to proceed as far as possible up the White River, and see 
whether it comes, as is said, from a great inland lake, and is 
connected with the Niger, or at least is in its neighbourhood.— 
Allgemeine Zeitung, May 8. 
EARTHQUAKES, 
The shock of an earthquake was very distinctly felt at Crieff 
and neighbourhood, betwixt 9 and 10 o’clock on the morning of 
the 18th inst. The shoek was so severe at Ferntower, the seat 
of Sir David Baird, as to set the bells of the house a-ringing.— 
— Stirling Journal. 
Extract of a Letter, dated Comrie, 15th of April :—** About 
half past nine on Saturday (the 13th inst.), while at break- 
fast, we were visited with the smartest shock of an earthquake 
that has been felt in this neighbourhood for the last fifteen or 
‘ twenty years. It was accompanied by two very loud reports, 
one apparently above our heads, and the other, which followed 
immediately afterwards, under our feet. The noise of these, 
which were much more terrific than thunder, lasted, I should 
think, fully thirty seconds. It set our kitchen utensils a-ringing, 
and brought down some of the covers of the pots and pans. I 
have felt much severer shocks in the West Indies, but not ac- 
companied with such a noise. The sensation it created in me 
was exactly like that I have felt on the deck of a vessel on her 
guns being discharged.” - 
The Neapolitan Journals announce, that on the 22d of March 
two immense openings of the earth took place on the sea-shore 
of Marsala, in Sicily. The same day a vessel was thrown 
“amongst rocks by an extraordinary motion of the waves, though 
the sea, only a few moments before, was perfectly tranquil. — It 
was Supposed that these phenomena were produced by a. sub- 
marine yoleanic eruption. 
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