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one mile wide by three in length — nothing but orange groves, and 

 the fruit some of the best I have ever tasted. 



Above them on the mountain sides, is a broad belt of olives ; then 

 a belt of pines, and then come the naked summits of the mountains, 

 I suppose more than three thousand feet in height. I had to cross 

 among them on the way to Palma, the capital of the island, and 

 thought the scenery nearly equal to any thing in the Tyrolese. They 

 completely shut out the stormy blasts that blow from the gulf of Ly- 

 ons, and make the temperature of the island delightful : its soil is 

 good, and I think, with proper care, Majorca might be made the 

 Madeira of the Mediterranean. It was Sunday when I was at Seller, 

 and the village was filled with the peasantry of the surrounding 

 mountains. Their costume retains much of the Moorish character : 

 trowsers short and full, vest without collar, jacket the same, with 

 short slashed sleaves ; over this a cloth coat reaching to the knees, 

 with very wide sleeves ; head shaven on the crown, with hair behind 

 long and curled ; a skull cap, and over this a low crowned hat, with 

 a brim fifteen inches wide, turned up at the edge, and ornamented 

 with tassels, — with all this, a man of Soller looks like a giant a short 

 way off, and the plaza in front of the church was full of them when 

 we arrived. They are a very hospitable and simple people, and for 

 the stream that goes roaring through their village, they have no other 

 name than " Torrento," Torrent : many of them, probably, do not 

 know that there is another in the world. 



Akt. V. — On the apparent anomaly ohserved in the rotation of li- 

 quids of different specific gravities when placed upon each other ; 

 by Walter R. Johnson, Prof, of Mech. and Nat. Philosophy, 

 in the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. 



A notice read at the Academy of Sciences, at Paris, Sept. 30, 

 1833, has appeared in some of the French Journals, particularly the 

 Revue Encyclopedique for that month, of certain experiments by 

 Mon, E. J. Thayer, in which it seems to be imagined that some new 

 principle either of hydraulics or chemistry, or both, is about to be 

 unfolded. My attention having been called to that notice by ray 

 friend J. P. Espy, Esq. we arranged a little apparatus with which 



