650 



Notice of the Ajaibal- Mukhlukat. 



[No. 152. 



conformably to the earth's form, as they approach the pole. The length 

 of the 1st clime, that nearest the equator, is 3,000 parasangs, and its 

 breadth 150; while the length of that nearest the pole is only 1,500, 

 and its breadth, 75 parasangs. 



Afridun, Alexander, Ardeshir, and other similar monarchs, have made 

 these climes the boundaries of their empires. 



The leading principles on which this division of the North hemisphere 

 into climates is based, are the differences of temperature, and the maxi- 

 mum length of the days and nights. In the first clime, the maximum 

 length is from 12£ to 12^ hours. 







Hours. 





Houi 



n the 2nd Clime from 





13i 



to 



131 



„ 3rd Ditto ditto, 





13f 



to 



14 



„ 4th Ditto ditto, 



. . 



Hi 



to 



14i 



,, 5th Ditto ditto, 



. . 



14f 



to 



15 



„ 6th Ditto ditto, 



. . 



15i 



to 



I5| 



,, 7th Ditto ditto, 





15f 



to 



16 



It extends to 16|- hours, beyond which all is supposed to be deso- 

 late and uninhabitable. 



Earthquakes, (Fiaz Zulazal, J^'Jf^j) 



When vapour and steam are pent up in large volumes in the bowels 

 of the earth, and are not condensed by cold into water, nor dissipated by 

 heat ; if the surface of the earth becomes heated, and they cannot 

 find vent, they cause the earth to tremble like the body of one affected 

 with fever, which shakes from the greenness of the corruption that is 

 within. 



In the human body, however, there is a natural heat which becomes 

 inflamed, and dissipates or dissolves the noxious matter ; but in the 

 earth, this species of heat does not exist. 



These vapours sometimes burst through the surface of the earth, or 

 undermine it, which causes the engulfing of mountains and cities.* 



* It has long been remarked, that among other signs of an approaching earthquake, 

 volcanos in the vicinity ceased to smoke. Anaxagoras (500 years B. C.) supposed 

 earthquakes to be caused by the pent-up air or vapour endeavouring to escape. 



