ae Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
sensible diminution of its saltness. Whence is all this saline matter 
obtained? Is there, imbedded in the deeper strata of the blue lime- 
stone, an immense layer of rock salt, derived from the original ocean, 
under which the rock was deposited ? 
10. Wingless Bird, (Proc. Lion. Soc., Dec. 17, and Athenzeum, No. 
dentally visited by Capt. Poole of the East India ny’s service ; 
who considering it a favorable spot for colonization, had induced six 
Irishmen and their wives and families to sett lace 1s 
at present the property of Capt. Poole. It is of considerable extent, 
discovery of the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand. No specimen 
has yet arrived in England,— are on their wa 
ut some y- 
11. Vegetable Physiology, (L’Institut, No. 878,)—MM. Cros and 
n 0 
responds with Chevreul’s on the circulation and ascension of the sap 0 
plants. Saat 
c. Influence of the composition of the surrounding waters.—In rivet 
water, deprived of air by ebullition and containing only carbonic _ 
much r considerable than the volume of the plant, and on sub! 
ting this plant to elementary analysis, it is found that for equal weights; 
it contains much less nitrogen than a portion of the same plant not = 
