298 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
the mind the suspicion that other travellers, who have described the 
e, have be 
scene I had yet beheld in Palestine. The Dead Lake itself was-as 
brightly blue as those of Italy; the mountains of Moab and the Am- 
monites lified their lofiy line against the early sun, and wore a purple 
hue over their multiplied cliffs and promontories.” 
“Then came sunrise, first flushing the light clouds above, then flash- 
™~ 
The roads from hence to Jerusalem is drear and barren, and nothing 
but Bethany occurred to divert my thoughts from dwelling on the beau- 
tiful Dead Sea.”—From an article on the Dead Sea, by Dr. R. J. 
uring the rapidity of the fall of the rain drops. The window of a 
drops on its descent passes, say, by the upper angle of the 
a certaial 
40,000 
meters an hour; and thi§ gave 1] + idity of 
the fall of the rain, ee es 
12. Means of preserving indefinitely Monuments consisting of Mar ble 
or Limestone ; by M. Rocuas, (Comptes Rendus, Dec. 1, 1852, 622-)— 
