268 . ' Scientific Intelligence. 
the summits are 12,000 feet high), the mountains of Nieuwefeld, 10, 
t Moro de Saint Martha, to Brazil, the 
rapids of La Plata, Paraguay, Parana, the ‘elevated basin of Titicaca, 
the Andes, Illimani near Jaen and the defile of Maranova. The thir 
hean, the mountains of Fezzan, Lake Tschan, the Caffre mountains 
of Nieuwefeld, the Southern Ocean near Kerguelen’s Land, the eastern 
or Blue mountains of New Holland, straits of Behring, SpitzbergeD, 
Scandinavia, Jutland, ete. : 
a three great circles point out the limits of the faces of the 
great hypothetical octahedron. Each of the faces may be divided 
— eight others by means of lines of accidents of minor importance, 
So as to make in all forty-eight irregular triangles, a form of the dia- 
t the intersections, M. de Hauslab observes that there are 
the globe occur. The author gives an extended illustration of his su 
ject and afterwards considers the particular history of the configura 
tion of the earth’s surface in accordance with his hypothesis. 
M. Boué afterwards states in a letter addressed to M. Viquesnel, that 
the hypothesis that the surface of the earth may lead to the idea 
globe’s being a polyhedral crystal instead of a sphere was b 
