CONTENTS 



OF THE 



EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



No. V. 



Page 

 Art. I. Abstract of Experiments on the Consolidation of the Strata of the 

 Earth, made by Sir James Hall, Bart. F. R. S. Lond. and Edin., with 

 Notices of his former Writings on Geological Subjects, . . 1 



II. pn some Phenomena of Vertical and of Lateral Mirage, observed at King 

 George's Bastion, Leith/ An Extract of a Letter to the Editor, from 

 Henry Home Blackadder, Esq. Surgeon, Med. Staff, H. P. - 13 



III. Account of the Circumstances connected with the Discovery of the Fossil 

 Elk in the Isle of Man, which prove that this Animal is not Antediluvian, 

 as many Naturalists and Antiquaries have supposed. By Samuel Hib- 

 bert, M. D. F. R. S. E. and M.G. S. Secretary to the Society of Scot- 

 tish Antiquaries, - - - - - - 15 



IV. Observations relative to the Fossil Elk of the Isle of Mann ; being the 

 Abstract of a Letter from H. R. Oswald, Esq. F. S. S. A. &c. addressed 

 to"the Loud Bishop of Sodor and Mann, in Reply to certain Queries 

 instituted by Professor Btjckland relative to the circumstances under 

 which the Fossil Elk is discovered, 28 



V. An Account of the Frontier between Ava and the Part of Bengal adjacent 

 to the Kamaphuli River. By Francis Hamilton, M. D. F. R. S. and 

 F. A. S. Lond. and Edin. Communicated by the Author, - 32 



VI. Account of an Improvement on the" Odometer," which, without increas- 

 ing its size, multiplies its power upwards of One Hundred Fold. By 

 James Hunter, Esq. of Thurston, F. R. S. E. Communicated by the 

 Author, - - - - - - - 44 



VII. On a Singular Detached Block of Stone occupying the summit of a Hill 

 at Dunkeld. By John MacCulloch, M. D. F. R. S. F. L. S. and 

 M. G. S. Chemist to the Board of Ordnance, and Professor of Chemistry 



in Addiscombe College. Communicated by the Author, - 46 



VIII. Notice of some of the Rarer Atmospherical Phenomena observed in 1824. 

 Communicated by the Author, - - - - - 49 



JX. On the Regular Composition of Crystallized Bodies. By William 

 Haidinoer, Esq. F. R. S. Edin. Communicated by the Author — 

 ( Continued from Vol. II. p. 93.) - - - - M 



