Miscellanies. 197 



Jroyn 1817 to 1836, arranged in the order of the Mortality. Ta 

 hen from the Ojicial Report from Twenty-two Stations, 



Deaths ia Deaths by 

 1000. Fever, 



1. The Bahamas, 200 



2. Savannah la Mar 200 



3. MontegoBay, 178-9 150-7 



4. Spanish Town, 162-4 141-1 



5. Tobago 152-8 104-1 



C. Port Antonio, 149-3 12G-0 



7. Up Park Camp, 140-6 120-8 



8. Dominica, 137-4 49-3 



9. St. Lucia, 122-8 63-1 



10. PortKo3aI, 113-1 93-9 



11. Trinidad, 106-3 61-6 



12. Falmouth, ' 102-6 80-0 



13. Stony Hill, 90-2 70-5 



14. British Guiana, 1 84-0 59-2 



15. Lucea, - . 84^9 63-2 



r, 



16. Fort Augusta, 73-5 



17. St. Kits, Nevis and Tortola, 71-0 42-1 



18. Grenada, 61-8 26-3 



19. Barbadoe 



11-S 



20. St. Vincents, 54-9 11-2 



21. Antigua and Montserrat, 40-6 14-9 



22. Maroon Town, 32-7 15-3 



Lond. and Edin. Phil. Mag., Jan. 1839-" 



19. Electrical Excitevient in Leather hy Friction. — The Rev. 

 Thos. Di-ury, under date of Dec. 17, 183S, at Keighley Rectory, 

 Yorkshire, England, communicates the following fact to Dr- Faraday. 



He speaks of what he terms an extraordinary electrifying machine, 



which is no other than a leather strap which connects two drums in 



a large worsted mill in the town of Keighley. " The dimensions and 



particulars of the strap are as follows : 



24 feet 



It is in length 



Breadth 



Thickness 



ft 



6 inches 

 I do. 



It makes ICO revolutions in a minute: 



The drums, over which it passes at both ends, are two feet in dia- 

 meter, made of wood fastened to iron hoops and turning on iron 

 axles ; these drums are placed at 10 feet distance from each other, 

 and the strap crosses in the middle between the drums, where there 

 is some friction ; the strap forming a figure of eight. There is no 



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