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in the same condition. It is about three miles round, and lies op- 
posite to the Bay of Plenty, between the river Thames, and the 
East Cape, and from twenty to thirty miles from the main land of 
New Zealand. When this island was-last visited, it presented a 
figtial display of flame and smoke, from the crater of its volcano. 
At the foot of the pile in which the volcano is. situated, there is a 
lake of boiling sulphur, and all around the lake the ground is en- 
crusted with sulphur. The natives say the volcano runs under the 
sea, and bursts out again in the interior of New Zealand, about 20 
miles from the dice, 4 in a district where there is a large hot lake, in 
the waters of which, the natives cook their provisions. —Jo1d. 
6. Interesting dinbedie of Fossil Animals——There has been 
lately sent to the Garden of plants, a collection of fossil bones, from 
the Lacustrine deposits. of Argenton, (Indri,) consisting of five or 
six s of Lophiodon, from the size of a large Rabbit, to that of 
a horse 5 Riso species of the genus Auunensberine: of the Trionyx 
and Crocodile. Some recent discoveries in the diluvian ossiferous 
deposits of Chiveley, (Loiret,) of the bones of the extremities of the 
animal called Gigantic Tapir, by Cuvier, shews that this animal, 
by the test of its osteology, is closely allied to the living Tapir, al- 
though equalling, if not exceeding the Rhinoceros. The Indri and 
Loiret are two departments in the central districts of France.—Ibid. 
_ 7. Recent formation of Zeolite. —Stilbite, Mesotype, and Apophy L- 
lite, appear almost always as a newer formation in the cavities of Amyg- 
daloid, and along with these is found calcareous spar. The formation 
sieneslite through the action of atmospheric water on dolerite, seems 
| to be going on. We observe it forming in hollows of a co®- 
stantree in which zeolite plays the part of calcareous sinter. 
Springs deposit a similar zeolite sinter ; and when, in the summer 
the brooks dry up, their whole bed appears white. In deep caves, 
where, during lower temperature and greater humidity of the ail, 
scarcely any evaporation takes place, I found a matter partly gelatin- 
ous, partly crystalline, which proved the continued production of 
zeolite. —Forchammer.—Ibid. 
8. Crystals in Living F egetables.—V arious naturalists have taken 
hoti¢e of the appearance of crystals in the internal parts of vegetable _ 
tissues, but nothing very explicit and certain has been’stated respect” 
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