134 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Stream, chiefly north and east, toward those regions where the ocean is 
] as the Baltic; entering also the Mediterranean, and leaving 
there large saline deposits, the water of the ocean is evaporated by the 
heat of the sun, increased in intensity by reflection from Africa’s sandy 
carry nourishment to that earth, its plants and animals, and again per 
form the same circulating course of evaporation, purification, and con- 
densation. 
“The atmosphere, then, besides forming the type of aerial communica 
tion between parent and offspring, as indicated in the tabular view, is the 
type too of the great aerating organ, the lung, (whether under the form 
of external branchial tufts or internal parenchymatous structure, forming 
pulmonic sacs. 
the maternal type, corresp & 
lactation, the greatest pelvic width typified in the highest tin 
layers have been torn away, leaving an arid country around the 
“In the attraction exerted by the moon over the tides, we have the 
he riodicity, to be enlarged upon more in the Chapt 
Pathological variations; and it may suffice now to ask again, whether 
we have not, in the periodical flux and reflux, the type of normal an ab 
