290 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
‘ :' Land, . 
North half of torrid zone, . 52°5582.. 146. 8162 “ 100: 279 
South half of torrid zone, . 4671592... 153-2156 “ 100: 332 
South temperate zone, , 22'5488 ...236-6060 “ 100: 1049 
Land. N. Polar. ; N. Temp.j N. Torrid./S. Torrid. |S. Temp.y Total. 
Europe, 0:9524 1569891 16°6513 
oe and islands, 1-1 50329 65°5901)13-6039) 3- 9743 0- 0-5308|88-7320) 
Ay] ES FO Vad (231) 10° (091 SU0 000 10E 
News Holland, “ a 6:°0263 9:7063|15°7326| 
North America, . |12°041035.0658) 3- 4857 50-592: 
a America, ' 5°7455)20-3889|8-504 1/34-6385 
The waters of rivers and lakes were taken into account as wellas 
those of the oceans. 
8. Eruption of Mt. Hekla, (Lond. Atheneum.)—An eruption of Mt. 
Hekla commenced September 2, 1845, and continued with unabated 
fury, until the 2d April of the present year. There is no example of 
such a prolonged phenomenon in the annals of Iceland. Very singular 
consequences have ensued. The winds have carried the volcanic ashes 
all over the island, and the cattle are perishing, poisoned by the herb- 
age which it taintsand covers. The poison developes itself in singular 
forms of disease, and it is thought that if the eruption continued two 
months longer, all the cattle in the island must be destroyed, or aban- 
doned to death by this strange malady. The eruption is described in 
fearful characters. The flames from each of the three craters were 
thrown up to a height of 2400 fathoms, and their width exceeded that 
of the greatest river in the island. ‘The lava lay mountains high: and 
masses vat pumice-stone weighing half a ton, had been carried a dis- 
tance of a league and a half. The ice and snow of centuries, had all 
melted in the heat, and overflowed the rivers : and the Rangen, swelled 
also by the burning lava, left its. fsiny tenants on its shores dead and 
cooked. 
The Royal Neadenty of Beiétisen, at Gottingen petitioned the King 
of Hanover to send commissioners into Iceland, at the Government eX- 
pense, for the purpose of observing this phenomenon ;. and two distin- 
guished Geologists, Mess. Berez and Sartorius were comin fam, 
that duty. 
Since the eruption of the siinniek has ceased, the whole southern 
portion of Iceland has been disturbed by frequent earthquakes. 
9. Vesuvius; (Atheneum, July 18, 1846.)—Letters from Naples 
_ announce that Vesuvius is in full eruption, throwing out masses of lava 
and making the night magnificent with its spectacle. 
10. Australia.—The late voyage of the Beagle under Commander 
2 : L. me R. mid has resulted i in 1 the discov overy of five rivers. on tbe, 
