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THE GEOLOGIST. 



which it is extracted daily hy a process of concentration. The gaseous 

 emanations which arise with the steam were only very incompletely 

 known until the recent investiirations of MM. Deville and Leblanc* 



We read in a late number of the Flenshurger Zcifung, that the peat- 

 hogs of Suder-Brarup, in Schleswig, are become latterly a ricli mine 

 for antiquarians. It appears extremely probable that a small army was 

 swallowed up in these peat-beds about 2,000 years ago. The soldiers 

 had, it is supposed, endeavoured to cross the country in the winter, whilst 

 the bogs were frozen, when they sank in and perished. Their 

 remains are found in considerable quantities. " Never before," says 

 the journal just quoted, have organic substances, such as cloth, wool, 

 leather, &c., been found in so perfect a state of preservation. Bows 

 and arrows, spears, shields, and the like, buried in tilie peat some two 

 thousand years ago, are almost in as good a state as if they had been 

 manufactured only last-year. Some of the objects are now exposed to 

 public gaze at the Hotel de Ville of the town of Flensburg. 



ews has lately come from America to France (and is now travelling 

 away over the Continent) of a man having been petrified alive after 

 drinking some water contained in a geode he had broken open, the 

 interior of which was beautifully crystallized. The route this mar- 

 vellous history — which beats Chamisso's " Peter Schlemyl " — has 

 travelled, is pretty nearly this : — From an article in the Alta California 

 of the 20th of July last, it got into the Athencdum, of London, from 

 thence into our Parisian contemporary, Le Cosmos, from which it has 

 been copied into other journals. The French look upon this account as 

 the last American eanard.-f 



Erkita in- oue Last. — P. 487, line 9, for make, read made ; p. 488, 

 line 22, for titanite, read titanate ; p. 490, lines 4, 8, and 14, for 

 Muladetta, read Maladetta : p. 490, lines 9 and 1 7, /or Nethon, read 

 'Nelh.ou. 



For farther informatiou on this subject, consult Payen in the Annaks de 

 Chimie et de Physique," 1841 ; Larderel, " Utahlissetnents Industriels de Vacide 

 borique en Tusca 7ie Sir. R. L Murchison, "On the Vents of Hot Vapour in 

 Tuscany," Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc, vol. vi., p. 367. 



t I have not much doubt myself, from the extensive account given in the papers 

 mentioned aboTe, that the man died of a fit of apoplexy. — T. L. P. 



