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144 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 





The highest state of the lake in calm weather ever recorded, was in 

 June, 1838, when it stood 5 feet 4 inches above the zero at Buffalo : 



ft. in. 



ft. in. 



1839, May 11, it stood, 3 5 



1840, May 14, 3 9 



1841, May 18, 3 1 



1842, May 5, • 3 7 



1843, May 15, (supposed,) 2 8 



1844, May 12, 2 11 



1845, May 15, 3 I 



The very highest on record was by the tempest in the night of the 



1846, May 16, 2 



1847, May 16, 2 6 



1848, May 1, 2 2 

 1846, May 19, 3 1 

 1850, May 12, 2 8 



2 11 



1851, April 8 



above the zero at Buffalo. 



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The very lowest on record, caused by a strong gale from northeast, 

 was in the afternoon of the 18lh of April, 1848, when it fell to 22 in- 

 ches below zero. 



The idea of a periodical rise and fall, once in a few years, is repu- 

 diated by exact observers. 



The general observation is, that the surface reaches its maximum for 

 the year, about the first of July, then falls a little to about the first of 

 October, then rises slowly to about the first of December, then falls 

 rapidly to about the tenth of February, then rises (in March very rap- 

 idly) and continues to rise until July. 



OBITtJAKY- 



Dr. S. G. Morton.— Witl 



nent man from the ranks of American science. Dr. Sabiuel Geokge 

 Morton of Philadelphia. He died on the 15t]i of May last, in his 53d 

 year. The following paragraphs from obituary notices published upon 

 his decease, but imperfectly express our own high estimate of his learn- 

 ing and his many personal excellencies. 



Dr. Morton was a native of Philadelphia, born in connection, we be- 

 lieve, with the Society of Friends, which has given to it so many citi- 

 zens distinguished in the walks of* science. Adopting the medical pro- 

 fession, which he studied under the auspices of the late Dr. Isaac Par- 

 rish, he received the honors of the doctorate from the University of 

 Pennsylvania, but afterw'ards proceeded to Edinburg, where he gradu- 

 ated again with distinction, highly esteemed for his literary abilities, as 

 well as his professional proficiency. Young, ardent, with the enthusi- 

 asm of a poetical temperament — for poetry was his first ambition- — but 

 a manly sense and purpose that enabled him to postpone the imagina- 

 tive to the solid apd useful, he made the tour of Europe, shook hands 

 with warm friends and relatives in Ireland, the land of his ancestors, 

 where strong inducementa were offered to retain him, and returned to 

 his native country, and to his native city, here to commence a career 

 which, even at. that early moment, he had marked out, and to build up 

 for himself a name not likely soon to be forgotten. It is scarce neces- 

 sary for us to refer to the success of his professional or merely nnedi- 

 cal career. That was always great. For years, no physician in PbU" 



