Capt. Cochrane. — Aroma of Rum S,- Meal. — Ohiluary. 2-97 



a new shock occurred, and buried him and those with him. Tartars who 

 have arrived from Damascus report that they saw the whole population of 

 Aleppo encamped in the environs. They state that several other towns in 

 the Pachalics of Aleppo and Tripoli, particularly Antioch and Laodicea, 

 have been destroyed by this earthquake. The captain of a French ship 

 also has reported that two rocks at the time of the earthquake had arisen 

 from the sea in the neighbourhood of Cyprus, which is almost under the 

 same latitude as Aleppo. 



" As soon as the Arabs and the Bedouins of the Syrian Desert obtained 

 information of the calamity which had befallen Aleppo, they hastened in 

 hordes to exercise their trade of plunder in that immense grave. Behrem 

 Pacha, however, drove them back, and also executed several Janissaries 

 \\ ho had committed depredations among the dead bodies and ruins. 



"The great number of unburied bodies in this extremely hot period of 

 the year, has produced pestilential effluvia, and obliged the unfortunate in- 

 habitants to seek for refuge in some remote district." 



SIBERIA. CAPTAIN COCHRANE. 



Tlie celebrated Englishman, Captain Cochrane, who is famous both in 

 and out of Europe, for his long excursions on foot, and has been for two 

 vcars engaged in such a tour in Siberia, to discover whether in the high 

 Korthern latitudes there is any comiexion between the continents of Asia 

 and America, has married in Kamtschatka, a native of that country, and is 

 now on his return. lie has not found any junction of the two continents. 



AROMA OF RUM AND MEAT. 

 According to Proust (Ann. de Chim. xviii. l/G) the peculiar substance of 

 genuine rum is not originallj' derived from the treatment of tiie saccharine 

 matter in the syrup, as some persons think ; but is a natural aroma of a pe- 

 culiar sort which exists in the fresh juice of the cane; in the same way as 

 the savoury principle of meat is not generated by its treatment at the fire, 

 but may be extracted by alcoliol even from the raw meat, and in fact (as 

 from cheese) in the state of a peculiar acid, on the nature of which Mr. 

 Proust intends to communicate more particular researches. 



OBITUARY. — Professor Tralles. 



We have tJie paiiiiul and unexpected task of recording tlie 

 death of this much esteemed Professor of Matlieniatics in the 

 University and Secretary to the Mathematical Class of the 

 Academy of Berlin, idler a sudden and short illness vvhile on 

 a visit to tliis country, on the 19tli inst. (Nov.) 



Professor Tralles was, as we are informed, a native of Swit- 

 zerland. He was formerly Professor of Mathematics at Berne 

 in tliat country, where he became acquainted with Mr. Ilassler, 

 late Astronomer under the treaty of Ghent on the part of the 

 United Suites of America, with whom he luidertook an accu- 

 rate trigonometrical survey of Switzerland, first at their own, 

 and afterwards at the pubhc expense. The French llevoluticm 

 ]in vented the execution of llie whole of their ))hms, hut the 

 French have, however, i)artiy continued tlieir surveys, ^^'hen 



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