134 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
about forty-five days in the desert, and made the entire journey on 
camels. if was exceedingly interested in the physical geography of 
bia, and with the exception of Northern Syria, which is far richet 
state of advanced degradation, these torrents bring down into oT 
leys innumerable specimens of every species of plutonic rocks, an 
with the present configuration of surface, they could ever have 
granite, syenite, porphyry, basalt, &c., mingled with recent ows < 
corallines, t e 
boat, or even a palm tree raft, ye 
March 14, 1851. : oe 
2. Effects of Lightning ; by Wm. Corrin, Professor of eg 
ics at Illinois College, Jacksonville, (communicated for this Journal. a 
On the 21st of August, a boy, (son of R. Yates, Esq., our represed 
uses. The telegraph wire passes ay 
150 feet from the spot, parallel with the direction in which the of 
ae at 
His eyebrows and front hair were considerably singed. His jut 
common straw hat) had a hole three inches in diameter knoe: on 
through the front crown. Most of the straw was carried entirely away), 
Bk tee 
