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which he discovered traces of inhabitants, but saw no peo- 

 ple. He was within two hundred miles of the presumed 

 site of the lost colony. He has accurately surveyed the 

 coast from lat. 75° to 69° including nearly 800 geographi- 

 cal miles of the indented coast. He finds an error in the 

 position of the land in lat. 74°, as laid down in charts, of 

 about 15°, or 900 miles of longitude. In August 1821 he 

 found the weather oppressively hot, and the air swarmed 

 with bees, butterflies and musquitoes. The coast w^as high- 

 ly picturesque, but it was seldom that the ice allowed him 

 to approach nearer than 15 leagues from the shore. 



Ed. Philos. Jour. Jan. 1823. 



9. On the limits of the occurrence of Fishes in high situa- 

 tions. — According to Raymond, the only fishes that occur 

 in the waters of the Pyrenees, at heights of from 1000 to 

 1162 toises are Salmo trutta, S. Fario and S. Alpinus. 

 Higher up all fishes disappear. The water Salamander 

 ceases to live at the height of 1292 toises ; probably be- 

 cause the higher lakes are half the year frozen. But cold 

 is not the sole cause of the disappearance of fishes in high 

 altitudes, since Humboldt mentions that in the equatorial 

 regions of America, where the mean temperature of the 

 freezing point begins 1500 toises higher than in the Pyre- 

 nees, the fishes disappear earlier in lakes and rivers. No 

 Trouts occur in the Andes. At a height of 1400 or 1500 

 toises there still occur Pocilien, Pimelodes, and the very 

 remarkable new form Evemophilus and Astroblepus. Un- 

 der the equator, from 1800 to 1900 toises, where the mean 

 temperature is still +9° 5' cent., and where few lakes ever 

 freeze, fishes are no longer met with, with the exception of 

 the remarkable Pymelodes Cyclopum, which are thrown 

 out in thousands with the clay-mud, projected from fissures 

 in the rocks, at the height of 2500 toises. These fishes 

 live in subterranean lakes. — Id. 



10. Iodine. — After the beneficial re-sults obtained by 

 Dr. Coindet, from the use of Iodine in the cure of Goitre, 

 the Clinical Institute of the Royal University of Padua, 

 have used it with a visrw of different effects. Thev detail 

 the cases of persons submitted to its action, and conclude 



