Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



name Mareo. But sea-sickness is unaccompanied by tbe distressin 

 culty of breathing experienced in the Veta. This disorder son 

 proves fatal, and 1 once witnessed a case in which death was the res 



I had fortunately but a slight attack, and soon felt relieved eno 

 take an observation, which, to our great surprise, showed us to be 

 feet above tlie sea— more than 3000 feet higher than Mount Blai 

 250 higher than the ''Misty'' near Arequipa, as measured by Hur 

 Our view had widened into a command of the whole sierre and it: 

 fications, hundreds of miles in area. To the south and west lay 

 goon of Candarave, — our mountain road back to Tacna, joined 

 east by a long ridge, over which ran a water course (Aoquia) to t 

 cano of Zutupaca, — the snow-tops running towards Arequipa. 

 ■ward stretched the Alto of Puma, and northeast, thq red rocks 

 Machita Pass peeping out from the snow in strong contrast, 

 above Tarrata, nearer our base, we saw the several Quebradas, fun 

 outlets for the thaws through the rivers Totona, Caijasso an^l 

 Grande — and away beyond all, the blue sea, which they never reu 

 ing quite dissipated in irrigation. 



There was little interesting in the crater itself, dormant so 

 years — no lagoon or birds, as reported, only a little frozen pudd 

 drainage of a diameter of some 400 feet, and a depth of perhaps 

 and only two or three small bits of sulphur. Descent 

 sand or volcanic ashes which, as on Vesuvius, lie at a steep angi 



srh of re- 



lie two smaller peaks frojn which the Indians gather sulphur for m 

 In the base of the nearest is a huge hole, which but for its elevan 

 should have supposed to be the entrance to a mine, the vent perh:i; 

 lateral eruption. Towards it we traced the huge tracks of ii ' 



the little child was gone. We mounted our mules just as the fu!' 

 rose and reached the village, 12 miles off, at 6|, a. m." 



4. Retorts. — The retort is one of the chemist's most useful instiui: 

 and yet, while such great improvements have been introtluced into - 

 ical apparatus generally, it is still made of the old shape, with lui 



With very little additional trouble, our glass houses might make n 



tigbt tit with a cork, inasmuch as the latter only touches the g'^^^/ y 

 single line, and if much force is used the glass bn-aks. Retorts sho ^^ 

 be made for this express purpose, with the stem fini-^hed like the nee" ^ 

 a flask. Again, flat-bottomed flasks have almost entirely taken the pia^^ 

 of round-bottomed; whv should we not have flat- bottom ed retar | 

 Theu too when dry substances are to be distilled, it would be convenie ^ 

 to have retorts with their tubes diminishing to quite a small size,in o^ 

 to be connected by india rubber tube with ordinary sized glass tu 



