CONTENTS. 



MISCELLANIES. 



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Notices of geological and other physical facts and of antiquities 

 in Asia, from Sir Robert K. Porter's Travels in Georgia, 

 Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c. «fec., . . 347 



1, 2. The Caucasus Range — Basalt, 348 



3, 4, 5, 6. Floods — Hot Baths — Boiling Spring near the Akhoor 



River — Ai-arat — Extinct Volcano near Mount Ararat, . 348 

 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. An Internal Volcano — Salt near Tabriz — Salt 

 in Lake Oroomia — Salt Mine near Erivan — Salt of the 



Great Salt Desert, 350 



12, 13, 14, Earthquakes at Tabriz — Taurus Mountains, south of 



the Euxine — Copper Mines, ..... 351 

 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. Copper, Lead, and Silver— Iron 

 Ore — Cherry Trees — Alum — Avalanches of mud, 

 stones, and mountains — Immense block of Gra- 

 nite — Nitrous Effloresence — Tower of Babel, • 352 

 23, 24. Naptha Springs and Sulphur— The Kirkook Naptha, . 353 



25. Naptha Springs of Bakon, ...... 354 



26, 27. Yellow Transparent Marble of Tabriz, near L. Oroo- 



mia — Enormous Calcareous Deposit, .... 355 

 28, 29, 30. Limestone with Shells — Limestone Promontory on 



Island Oroomia — Mica containing Potash and Lithia, . 356 



31. Heat of the interior of the earth, 357 



32. Notice of remarkable agitations of the Sea at the Sandwich 

 Islands, on the 7th November, 1837, .... 358 



33. 34. Rose Mica Lepidolite — Notice of a cheap and simple 



method of preparing paper for Photographic Drawing, in 

 which the use of any salt of silver is dispensed with, . 361 

 35, 36. Fossil Tree at Granton, near Edinburgh — Notice upon 



the Alcoholic Strength of Wines, ..... 363 



37. Dr. Berendt's Investigations on Amber, .... 365 



38. Notice regarding the Stone used in constructing the Tem- 



ples at Pa^stum, ........ 366 



39. Products of Respiration at different periods of the day, . 367 



40. 41. Chemical Equivalents — Photogenic power of Light from 



burning Coke, ........ 368 



42, 43. Lelhoea Geognostica of Prof. Bronn. Exchange of ob- 

 jects of "Natural History — Prof. Agassiz on the Echino- 

 dermata, 369 



