Miscellaneous Intelligence. 437 
From a single series of eighteen readings of the galvanometer 
for the sun’s heat he obtained the ratio of lunar to solar radiation 
of 1: 89819, 
The amount of lunar heat appears to indicate an elevation of 
temperature for the moon’s surface at full moon of 500° Fahrenheit. 
V. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
which has been in some degree the occasion of this essay, and 
which is a most comprehensive and convenient summary of the 
views which have heretofore been commonly received respecting 
the early discoveries of this continent. 
Rev, Leonard Woods, D.D., lately President of Bowdoin Col- 
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for the purpose of sec s much as possible of the documen- 
tary records. In the course of his inquires, which were fruitful in 
many ways, he came upon the well known traveler Dr. l 
accompanied with elaborate and comprehensive illustrative notes 
and comments 
these various charts chronologically, Dr. Kohl gives a genera 
summary, by nations, of the parts performed by the several mari- 
