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in the same condition. It is about three miles round, and lies op- 

 posite to the Bay of Plenty, between the river Thames, and the 

 East Cape, and from twenty to thirty miles from the main land of 

 New Zealand. When this island was last visited, it presented a 

 frightful display of flame and smoke, from the crater of its volcano. 

 At the foot of the pile in which the volcano is situated, there is a 

 lake oi boiling stdphur, and all around the lake the ground is en- 

 crusted with sulphur. The natives say the volcano runs under the 

 sea, and bursts out again in the interior of New Zealand, about 20 

 miles from the shore, in a district where there is a large hot lake, in 

 the waters of which, the natives cook their provisions. — Ibid. 



6. Interesting dlscovei'y of Fossil Animals. — There has been 

 lately sent to the Garden of plants, a collection of fossil bones, from 

 the Lacustrine deposits pf Argetiton, (Indri,) consisting of five or 

 six species of Lophiodon, from the size of a large Rabbit, to that of 

 ahorse; also species of the genus Anthrocotherium, of the Trionyx 

 and Crocodile. Some recent discoveries in the diluvian ossiferous 

 deposits of Chiveley, (Loiret,) of the bones of the extremities of the 

 animal called Gigantic Tapir, by Cuvier, shevi's that this animal, 

 by the test of its osteology, is closely allied to the living Tapir, al- 

 though equalling, if not exceeding the Rhinoceros. The Indri and 

 Loiret are two departments in the central districts of France. — Ibid. 



7. Recent formation of Zeolite. — Stilbite, Mesotype, and Apophyl- 

 lite, appear almost always as a newer formation in the cavities of Amyg- 

 daloid, and along with these is found calcareous spar. The formation 

 of zeolite through the action of atmospheric water on dolerite, seems 

 still to be going on. We observe it forming in hollows of a con- 

 glomerate, in which zeolite plays the part of calcareous sinter. 

 Springs deposit a similar zeolite sinter ; and when, in the summer 

 the brooks dry up, their whole bed appears white. In deep caves, 

 where, during lower temperature and greater humidity of the air, 

 scarcely any evaporation takes place, I found a matter partly gelatin- 

 ous, partly crystalline, which proved the continued production of 

 zeolite. — For chammer^-'— Ibid. 



8. Crystals in Living Vegetables. — Various naturalists have taken 

 notice of the appearance of crystals in the internal parts of vegetable 

 tissues, but nothing very explicit and certain has been stated respect- 



