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THE GEOLOGIST. 
which it is extracted daily by a process of concentration. The gaseous 
emanations which arise with the steam were only very incompletely 
known until the recent investigations of MM. Deville and Leblanc* 
We read in a late number of the Flenshurger Zeitung, that the peat- 
bogs of Suder-Brarup, in Schleswig, are become latterly a rich 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 the 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. 
News 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 Athenceum, 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 canard.] 
Ekkata in otjr Last. — P. 487, line 9, /or make, r^at? 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 
Nethou. 
^ For further information on this subject, consult Payen in the " Annales de 
Chimie et de Physique," 1841 ; Larderel, " Etablissenients Iiidustriels de Vacide 
horique en Tuscane ;" Sir. R. I. Murchison, "On the Vents of Hot Vapour in 
Tuscany," Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. vi., p. 367. 
t I have not much doubt myself, from the extensive account given in the papers 
mentioned above, that the man died of a fit of apoplexy. — T. L. P. 
