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continuing the same to the bottom. Below the 1,300 fathoms in 
the hollow between New Hebrides and Torres Strait the water is 
reef. After anchoring for one night near Raine Island, the Expe- 
they remained a week, and then proceeded through the 
Banda Sea, carrying a continuous line of soundings, and touching 
at Dobbo, Ki Doulan, and Banda. They arrived at Amboina on 
the 6th of October, where they obtained coal, and then, passing 
through the Molucca passage, reached Ilo Ilo on the 28th, Manila 
on the 4th of November, and Hong Kong on the 19th. 
rom the temperatures obtained in the Banda, Celebes, Sula,. 
and China Seas, it is evident that their waters are cut off from the 
general oceanic circulation by ridges conecting the islands which 
surround them. 
In each of the seas soundings of over 2,000 fathoms were ob- 
tained, but in no instance did the temperature decrease regularly 
om the surface to the bottom, as is usual in the ocean. In eve 
case, after attaining a certain depth, the temperature below that 
depth remained the same; thus, in the Banda and China seas, the 
temperature remained the same from 900 fathoms to the bottom ; 
in the Celebes Sea from 700 fathoms to the bottom; and in the 
Sula Sea from 400 fathoms to the bottom.— Atheneum, Aug. 7. 
Images produced by Lightning.—A letter of Professor W. 
- DROWN, of the University of Georgia, to one of the editors, 
calls attention to a remarkable instance of the formation of im- 
Shenigee upon the human body by a lightning stroke, and encloses 
etters of Messrs, E. G. Simmons and T’. N. Hawkes, of Americus, 
Ga., where the occurrence took place, describing the circumstances 
875, at a 
States, a stroke of lightning fell upon a house in Americus, render- 
Ing insensible for a time four persons who were seated in one of 
the rooms. The two outer sides of this room, which was at a 
corner of the house, had each one window, and nearly opposite 
these on the two other sides were the chimney and the door 
a 
da youn lady were seated not far from the chimney, near 
which, and elie to the wall, was another child. : 
All these persons were rendered insensible for a time by the 
Stroke which severed the tree, and on their recovery there were 
nd impressed upon the bodies of them all more or less distinct 
