408 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
care, and without prejudice in favor of the conclusion reached, 
they are of the highest importance in the department of hydraulics. 
General Ellis also gives the observations made with reference to 
the monthly and annual discharge of the Connecticut. Thes 
over forty miles from Long Island Sound, is reached by the tides, 
the amount of tide at the lowest water being about ten inches in 
range. This discharge for the year 1876 and 1877 was as follows: 
POMUREY © ii uceesic cu: - 
MOUSPURIY:..ocuei dune... 64,400 18,491 
March . 93,866 95,253 
(ADE: wi eeweg el ee 21 60,766 110,247 
TORY cs ues 155,521 45,374 
WUDE Aidan kinases its 41,008 10,907 
ee aoe 22,016 25,475 
August goccSi eens se . 16,674 22,146 
Septem Very 5. wus 6 vce» 17,186 18,089 
oto ler 1:52 bisoy eo aunsuks 6830 31,772 
November . 2.2... 22.2: 26,822 75,825 
December... 0c oc ss 17,156 46,382 
700,291 516,261 
The highest known freshet on the Connecticut below Holyoke 
is stated to have occurred in May, 1854, when the water at 
Hartford gauge stood twenty-nine feet ten inches above low- 
water mark. The next highest on record—that of 1801—carried 
the waters up to twenty-seven feet six inches. : 
e report contains also the results cf borings near the Connecti 
cut River Channel at Hartford and to the north up to twenty-five 
miles, At Hartford and two-thirds of a mile north the depth 
reached was fifty feet below low water and in the latter case 
hard red marl” was struck; at a point 1°56 miles north of Hart- 
ford, a boring of 90 feet ended in clay; 2°39 miles north, one of 
123-4 feet reached, probably, rock; at 3°37 miles north, rock was 
estes in 21°11 feet; and at 44 miles north, rock was reached in 
34°8 feet. 
3. Translation of Weishach’s Mechanics.—The second part of 
Vol. II of this translation by Professor DuBois (8vo, viii and 559 
pp.) contains a full discussion of the important subjects of Heat, 
Engines. The first part on Hydraulics and Hy- 
_ The third and final volume of Professor Weisbach’s great work 
is now undergoing thorough revision in Germany by Professor 
Hermann, and its translation will be issued by the publishers 
