98 Geographical Notices. 
whether the result of submarine eruptions, or the effect of oreat 
disturbances in distant parts. 4 
Our shakes continue up to this time, but they are not severe, | 
N umber of houses buried by landslide, 10 
* death 31 
Houses destroyed by — eruption, 37 
108 
Dehe 1 ™ oe 46 
Houses 6“ bd earthquake, 46 
All the above disasters were in Kau 
Hilo suffered not a little in builitiies and other works. a 
On the 8th of August Hilo and Puna were visited by a most | 
awful and protracted thunder-storm. It commenced a little | 
after noon and continued until midnight. The Srl rested 
on the earth and the whole atmosphere was surchar, 
electricity. The air was like hot steam, and white stron uf 
lightning were constantly flashing out and playing along t | 
ground, the report coming with the flash and seeming to make 
the earth tremble. I was in Puna at the time, and the natives 
were greatly alarmed, One man went out of doors and returned 
immediately, saying, that the lightning looked like white hens, 
running on the ground around him. This electrical stom 
must have been excited by the volcanic action, as thunder 
storms in summer are as rare with us as rain in "Egypt or on 
the coast of Peru 
e map I send does not profess to be exactly ote but 
it is sufficiently so to give you a general idea of localiti 
A sharp earthquake occcurred on the 6th inst. 
Art. 1X.—Geographical Notices; by D. C. Gruman. 
: IL. Nores on Cura, sy Rev. W. A. P. Martin, D.D. — 
A REcENT number of the Journal of the North China Brant 
of Sinn’ Saget Asiatic Society, contains an account of an pe 
journey from Peking to Shanghai, made in 1866, by Ber. 
D, This distinguished Chinese schola; 
niversity of Pe The article referred to discu® 
four topies ; I, the imperial road leading south from Peking 
Ble eey e ae te onan ; III, 
navi 0. 0 : Pi SEC 
of te Graal Gan ee 
