Vbt. LVIII."] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 507 



the same as the mammoth of Siberia ; and as grinder-teeth like those of Ame- 

 rica have been dug up in various other parts of the world ; it should seem to 

 follow, that the incognitum in former times has been a very general inhabitant 

 of the globe. And if this animal was indeed carnivorous, which Dr. H. believed 

 cannot be doubted, though we may as philosophers regret it, as men we cannot 

 but thank Heaven that its whole generation is probably extinct. 



f^I. Observations made on the Islands of Saint John and Cape Breton, to ascer- 

 tain the Longitude and Latitude of those Places, agreeable to the Orders and 

 Instructions of the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plan- 

 tations. By Capt. Holland, Surveyor General in Canada, p. A6. -. 



The result of the observations is ; that the Magdalen Islands are situated in the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence, in the latitude of 47° 4l' n., and between 6l° and 6l° 38' 

 w. longitude from London. The variation of the compass is 17° 30' w., anno 

 1765. The Island of Entry lies in 47° 17' north latitude, and 61" 20' w, longi- 

 tude from London. The Bird Islands are in 47° 55' n. latitude, and bear from 

 the E. point of Magdalen North 35° e., distant 18 miles. Bryon Island is in 

 47° 52' N. latitude, and the e. point bears n. 13° w. of the e. point of Magda- 

 len; distant 12 miles. At Louisburg and Island Battery, the latitude is 45°54'n. 

 Cape North, latitude 47° 2' n. St Paul's Island, north cove, latitude 47° 1 1' n. 

 The entrance of Dartmouth Harbour or Baye des Espjignols, latitude a6° 1 3' n. 

 Conway, or St. Anne's harbour, latitude 46° 20'n. The north head of Colvile's 

 Bay, or Niganiche, latitude 46° 44' n. 



Vn. A Note concerning the Cold of 1740, and of this Year, 1768. By J. 



Bevis, M.D., F.R.S. p. 54. 



Dr. Bevis's journal of astronomical observations made at Stoke Newington, 

 in a detached or insulated observatory, whose walls were of brick, and 2 feet thick, 

 states, that during most part of the night of the 5th day of January 1 74^ the ink 

 in his stand-dish would freeze in a few minutes, if brought within a foot of the 

 wall ; and that the surface of the water wherein the ball of the plumb-line hung, 

 for rectifying the position of his mural quadrant, was continually freezing, so 

 that he was obliged to thaw it frequently, by pouring in hot water; yet was there 

 a good fire in the room all the night. At 5 in the morning, of the 6th, a 

 Fahrenheit's thermometer, made by himself, exposed to the north, stood some- 

 what lower than 10, that is, more than 22 divisions below freezing. This was 

 the coldest night of that year there. This present year, in Brick-court, N° I, 

 Middle Temple, the same thermometer, exposed out of doors to the north, stood 

 lowest on new-year's-day in the morning, to wit at 17, and once again at the 

 same place. , ,,,.uiii, 



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