Vi CONTENTS. 



MISCELLANIES. 



Notices of geological and other physical facts and of antiquities 



in Asia, from Sir Robert K. Porter's Travels in Georgia, 



1, 2. The Caucasus Range — Basalt, . . . . . 



3, 4, 5, 6. Floods — Hot Baths — Boiling Spring near the Akhoor 



35. Naplha Springs of Bakon, 



26, 



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Marbl 



33 



1837, • » . • 



Notice of a cheap and simple 



38 



pies at Pa^stum, 



Page, 



Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c. &c., . . 347 



348 



350 



River — Ararat — Extinct Volcano near Mount Ararat, . 348 

 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. An Internal Volcano— Salt near Tabriz— Salt 



in Lake Oroomia — Salt Mine near Erivan — Salt of the 



Great Salt Desert, ...,,.. 



12, 13, 14, Earthquakes at Tabriz — Taurus Mountains, south of 



the Euxine — Copper Mines, ..... 351 



15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. Copper, Lead, and Silver— Iron 



Ore — Cherry Trees — Alum — Avalanches of mud, 

 stones, and mountains — Immense block of Gra- 

 nite — Nitrous Effloresence — Tower of Babel, . 352 



23, 24. Naptha Springs and Sulphur— The Kirkook Naptha, . 353 



354 



mia^ — Enormous Calcareous Deposit, .... 355 

 28, 29, 30, Limestone with Shells — Limestone Promontory on 



Island Oroomia— Mica containing Potash and Lithia, . 356 



31. Heat of the interior of the earth, . . . . . 357 



32. Notice of rp.marliahlp an-ifnflr»na mf iVirx fij^^o ^i iV,^ G«vi,1,.r;^T, 



358 



method of preparing paper for Photographic Drawing, in 

 which the use of any salt of silver is dispensed with, . 361 



35, 36. Fossil Tree at Granton, near Edinburgh— Notice upon 



the Alcoholic Strength of Wines, 363 



37. Dr. Berendt's Inrestigations on Amber, .... 365 



39. Products of Respiration at difl'erent periods of the day, . 367 



40, 41. Chemical Equivalents — Photogenic power of Light from 



burning Coke, ,.,...•• 368 

 42, 43. Lethsea Geognostica of Prof. Bronn. Exchange of ob- 

 jects of Natural History — Prof. Agassiz on the Echino- 

 dermata, 369 



