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INTELLIGENCE. 
I, FOREIGN. 
{Foreign Literature and Science. Extracted and translated by d. 
Griscom.] . 
1. Subterranean Sounds.—At the village of Babino-poglie 
in the centre of a valley in the Island of Meleda, in the Adri- 
atic Sea, remarkable sounds were heard for the first time on 
the 20th March, 1822. They resembled the reports of can- 
non, and were loud enough to produce a shaking in the doors 
and windows of the village. They were at first attributed 
to the guns of some ships of war, at a distance, in the open 
sea, and then to the exercise of Turkish artillery, on the Ot- 
toman frontiers. These discharges were repeated four, ten, 
and even a hundred times in a day, at all hours and in all 
weathers, and continued to prevail until the month of Febru- 
ary, 1824, from which time there was an intermission of seven 
months. In September of the same year, the detonations 
recommenced, and continued, but more feeble and rare, to 
the middle of March, 1825, when they again ceased. 
These noises have been accompanied by no luminous phe- 
momena or meteors of any kind. Dr. Stulli; who furnishes 
the statement, conjectures that these remarkable detonations 
arise from sudden emissions of gas, elaborated in cavities 
beneath the islands, and which issuing through subterranean 
passages, strike the air with such force as to produce loud 
‘detonations.—Bib. Univ. Aug. 1825. 
2. Heloetic Society.—The annual meeting of this Society 
was held with the usual feeling of national gratulation, and 
characteristic hospitality, on the 27th, 28th, and 29th of July 
last, at the town of Soleure presided by M. Pfluger, apothe- 
eary of that place. In his opening discourse, ‘the president 
Anas to lament the decease, within the preceding year, ef 
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