440 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
any portion of the supposed blood out of the country. One of these 
bottles, as [ have already said, I send to you for examination, believing 
that the results may not be uninteresting to the readers of the Journal. 
New York, May 1, 1854.” 
those of lead. Gutta percha may be used in place of the lead, and by 
covering it with a deposit from a silver solution, the impression may be 
used for stereotyping or electrotyping. 
- Mount Ararat and places in the Caspian Basin.—Mount Ararat 
was ascended by Col. Chodzko of Russia in 1850. He found the height 
to be 15,912 French feet; and for Little Ararat 3852 feet less in eleva- 
tion. M. Fedoroff found in 1829, 16,069 for the former and 12,2 
for the latter. Parrot obtained 16,251 and 12,271 feet. 
Lake Goktchai near Erivan is not less than 5,510 feet (French) 
above the sea; and on its borders to the south and southeast there are 
ancient volcanoes 8000, 10,000 and 11,000 feet in height. 
feet ; the famous peak of Demavend 18,846 feet, (which Frazer had 
made 10,000 feet, T. Thomson 14,000, Texier 4548 meters, and Hum- 
boldt in his Central Asia, vol. iii, 3066 toises. 
The lake Aral derived its name from the string of islands © the 
east and north sides, the word in the Kirghis dialect meaning island. 

do not interfere,” a statement which accords with the regard 
the writer. His results will be published on the return of | 
On—J.D.D. ris Aun Pn 
