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heads are flattened on the crown ; their noses are flat, and the nostrils wide- 

 ly distended : they have hollow eyes, to which a deeper enforcement is given 

 by great bushy projecting: eye-brows, which also add to the wildness of their 

 expression. Their mouths are uncommonly large; and, owing both to the 

 prominence of the jaws and the thickness of the lips, there is an apparent 

 elongation in that part, which, taken in conjunction with the flatness of the 

 nose between the eyes, gives them a slight cast of the ourang-outang. Their 

 bodies are, in those that are well fed and indolent, sometimes unshapely 

 with fat ; but from the quality of their food, and the difficulty they have of 

 procuring a sufficient supply of it, that is but seldom the case. Their 

 limbs are in every part disproportionably thin, although, from the exertion 

 they are obliged to make, they are well knit and muscular, and capable of 

 undergoing a great deal of fatigue. When born they are not altogether 

 black, but of a reddish brown •, and it is prcbable that, were they clothed, 

 better fed, and not so much exposed to the action of the sun and atmosphere, 

 or so bedaubed with grease, charcoal, and soot, they might be a dark brown, 

 rather than a black people. In the form of their bodies, or the general 

 expression of their countenances, there is hardly any difference throughout, 

 the whole extent of the country, farther than what might be expected from 

 a great or a small supply of food, and different exertion of person. In the 

 appearance of their hair there are more differences ; those in Van Diemen's 

 Land having it so much more frizzled than those of Sydney, as, upon super- 

 ficial observation, to make them appear a different race. In other respects, 

 however, they are so analogous as to establish the fact of their being the 

 same.— Picture of Australia. 



Insufflation of Animals. — M. Leroy discovered that atmospheric air, 

 strongly impelled into the trachea (wind-pipe) of certain animals, such as 

 rabbits, goats, sheep, foxes, &c. causes sudden death. Other animals, dogs, 

 for example, in which the pulmonary, tissue is less delicate, resist this opera- 

 tion, but are more or less incommoded by it. Goats and sheep died under 

 the eyes of persons appointed by the Academy to report upon the discovery, 

 after air had been impelled into" their lungs without the aid of a machine, 

 but merely by the mouth of the experimenter. It would appear, that, most 

 commonly the air blown in, lacerates the delicate tissue of the lungs at the 

 upper part. Insufflation being recommended as an efficacious means of 

 restoring drowned persons to life, it is of the greatest importance to know if 

 human lungs are similar to the sheep and goat in this respect, or if they are 

 possessed of a power equal to that of the dog. If the former be the case, 

 insufflation wouid prove mortal to suffocited persons. Direct experiments . 

 are wanting on this subject; but trials made on the dead body, shew that 

 the human lungs may be ruptured by insufflation. The lungs of very young 

 children, on the contrary, resist the action of a very strong insufflation. — 

 Ann. de Ohim. et de Phys. 



Breed of Cattle.— The cattle of Zanzibar are not of the Madagascar, but of 

 the Bombay breed, small in size, weighing not more, on the average, than 

 :i00 lbs., and without the hump on the back, which generally distinguishes 

 the horned cattle in this quarter of the world. — Lit. Gaz. No. 449, p. 555. 



Lion. — A lioness recently whelped, in a menagerie at Utrecht, three male 

 cubs, and one female, which she suckles herself.— Lit. Gaz. No. 449, p. 559. 



BOTANY. 



GrNUS. Aloe. — Perigom'um, (flower,) pendulous, regular, cylindrical, 

 stamen and anther's included. Capsule slightly ribbed. Shrubs or herbs, 

 succulent, but mostly caulescent ; flowers produced on lofty peduncles. — 

 Aliie Linnaeus, A Hon, Uaworth, ike. 



Aloe pluridens.— (Many-toothed Tree Aliie), leaves crowning the stem, 

 sword-shaped, recurved, vigorous, teeth on the margins very numerous, 

 strong, incurved.— Aloe pluridens.— Haworth in Philosophical Magazine, 

 Oct. 1825. 

 Observ. — 1 he stem of this species rises to the height of 8 to 10 feet, and is 

 ugly formed. The leaves are disposed in a spiral or screw form, grace- 

 fully pendant : flower stems generally two, branching into three or more 

 ■ ; flowers of a brilliant scarlet colour, displaying themselves hi June, 



