358 ^ Miscellanies. 



]y mixed and arranged in hollows in the hearth stones plugged by a 

 similar stone, or in hollows in the sand beneath, or in the back wall 

 of the hearth, and when the furnaces are again opened we may look 

 for some interesting and instructive results. The Elsecar furnace, 

 in which these experiments were arranged, commenced working in 

 October, 1833, and may be expected to blow out at the end of 

 1836. 



Ancient race of men in the Andes. — J. B. Pentland stated, that 

 in ancient tombs of very beautiful architecture, among the mountains 

 of Peru and Bolivia, and in the great inter-alpine valley of Titicaca, 

 and on the borders of the lake of the same name, are found the re- 

 mains of a race, in whose crania two thirds of the entire weight of 

 the cerebral mass is placed behind the occipital foramen, the bones 

 of the face being very much elongated. 



The tombs are probably between seven hundred and eight hun- 

 dred years old, and probably belonged to a race of men, who inhab- 

 ited the elevated regions between the fourteenth and the nineteenth 

 degrees of South Latitude, before the arrival of the present Indian 

 population, which greatly resembles the Asiatic races of the old 

 world. 



3. LyeU's Geology, 4th London Edition, four Volumes, 8vo. 

 1835. — The rapidity with which new editions of this excellent work 

 have appeared, sufficiently evinces the estimation in which it is held. 

 Its execution is in strict accordance with its title. — " Principles of 

 Geology, being an enquiry how far the former changes of the earth's 

 surface, are referable to causes now in operation." 



We are indebted to the industry, good judgment and great sci- 

 ence of Mr. Ly ell, for a lucid and highly interesting exhibition of 

 facts, and for a logical and candid discussion of principles. He has 

 done much to recal geologists from extravagant speculations, and to 

 allure them back to a course of strict induction ; thus placing geolo- 

 gy, side by side, with the other sciences of observation. If he has 

 repressed the excursions of our imaginations into unknown scenes in 

 unknown ages, he has exalted our conception of the number and 

 magnitude of great geological events, which have happened within 

 the historical era, and which are embraced, even within the brief 

 span of a protracted human life. While, therefore, he does not per- 

 mit us to imagine that great catastrophes were, in a sense, pecuhar 

 to the earliest periods, he proves that catastrophes and great move- 



