CONTENTS 



OF THE 



EDINBUKGH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



No. VIII. 



Page 

 ART. I. Account of an Orang Outang, of remarkable height, from the Island 

 of Sumatra. By Clarke Abel, M. D. Communicated in a Letter to 

 Dr Brewster. With a Plate, ... 193 



II. Memoir on the Mechanism of the Human Voice. By M. Felix Sa- 

 VAaT > '- 200 



III. Account of a Volcano in the Himalayah Mountains. Communicated to 



Dr Brewster by a Correspondent in India, . . 209 



IV. Researches on the Refractive Power of Elastic Fluids. By M. Dtjlong, 211 

 V. Description of the Grotto of Ganges, By M. Marsollier, . 216 



VI. Notice respecting the Eggs of the Boa Constrictor, and of a young Brood 

 hatched from them in Assam. Communicated to Dr Brewster by a 

 Correspondent in India, - . . . . 221 



VII. Analysis of a Lithion-Mica from Zinnwald in Bohemia. By C. G. 

 Gmeliu, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Tubingen. In a 

 Letter to Dr Brewster, ..... 222 



VIII. On the Law of the Compression of Air, and of Gases capable of being 

 Liquefied by Pressure. By H. C. Oersted, Professor of Natural Philo- 

 sophy in the University of Copenhagen. Communicated by the Author, 224 



IX. Route to India, by Egypt and the Red Sea. By Captain Pringle, 

 Royal Engineers. Communicated by the Author, . . 234 



X. Observations and Experiments tending to show that the Sense of Taste is 

 not a separate one. By a Correspondent, - 243 



XI. Account of Dr Clark and Captain Sherwill's Ascent of Mont Blanc, in 

 August 1825, ----- 255 



XII. Farther observations on the History of Mr Babbage's Experiments on 



the Production of Magnetism by Rotation. ... 257 



XIII. Description of the Great Stone Bridge of Seventeen Arches erected over 

 the Gaionne at Bourdcaux. In a Letter to the Editor, from a Corres- 

 pondent, ....... 2C0 



XIV. Account of the Shock of an Earthquake felt at Sea by the Honourable 

 East India Company's Ship Winchelsea. In a Letter to the Editor, 

 from Captain Lachlan, 17th Regiment, - . . 2C4 



