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before the fraud was discovered. This shell-inarl would appear to rest on the 
boulder-foniiation, according to the description given by the workmen. When 
they pierced it, water immediately sjirung up and inundated the pit. It is worth 
while to notice that the peat and timber are confined to the surface of the basin, 
and that in them no remains of the elk were found ; and this lias been universally 
the case in the Isle of Man. Under the portion of the Eallaugh Curragh which 
stretches down towards the Ballamona and pours forth its accumulated waters by 
the Carlaane drain into the sea, similar basins to these have been discovered, con- 
taining the remains of the elk, but they are all below the great ttn-f-bogs, in which 
we meet witli tnmks of trees, both upright and prostrate.* There is no doubt 
that great changes have taken place throughout this northern area, even within 
the ])eriod which has been called historical. The old map of the Isle of Man, 
performed by Thomas Durham, as given by Speed, Can3den, Chaloner, and in 
Ulean's Atlas, exhibits ancient lakes, both in the south and north of the island. 
There was the Malar lough, in Lagazayre, a lough in Andreas parish, and Bala 
lough, the corruption of which has given the present name of the village in its 
vicinity— Ballaugh. The great lake of Myreshaw, or Mirascogh, seems to have 
occupied, at one time, a large portion of the Curragh, near the base of the moun- 
tains ; and, so late as 1505, we read of a grant of one-half of the fishery of it to 
Huan Hesketh, Bishop of Man, liy Thomas, Earl of Derby. The names of several 
estates in this neighbourhood, such, for instance, as Elian Vane, AVhite Island, 
&c. point to their original condition, as well as the nature of some of the holdings, 
which show that e\^en since the Act of Settlement, there has been a large territory 
once occupied by water reclaimed to the purposes of husbandry.' Fmther in- 
teresting particulars are noted in the work from which the account has been 
extracted, -' The Lsle of Man,' by the Ilev. J. G. Cunnning, M.A., F.G.S. 
—Yours, &c. F. S. A." 
REVIEWS. 
Das Mineral rc'ich in Bildern. Natnrldslorisch-techninclie Beschreihvng tind 
Ahbildung der wichtiysten Mineralien. Von Dr. J. G. von Korr. Stuttgart : 
Schreiber& Schill. 1858. 
The Mineral. Kingdom. By Dr. J. G. KuRR, Professor of Natural Histo^ to the 
Polytechnic Institution of Stuttgart. Edinburgh: Ednionston & Douglas, 
88, Princes Street. 1859. 
Dr. Kcrr is Professor of Natural History to the Polytechnic Institution of 
Stuttgart, and he has in this work offerred "a most valuable elementary volume to 
the public. 
Tlie original work is in German, nicely printed on stout paper, bound in a 
prettily-desigiied ornamental cover, and illustrated by twenty-two plates. 
The size Dr. Kurr has chosen for his work is a fine folio, and the handsome 
plates by which examples of the most important minerals, rocks, and petrifactions 
are displayed, deserve high praise for the judgment manifested in the selection, 
and for the beautiful manner in which they are drawn and coloured. 
The name of the editor of the English translation does not appear, but his work 
seems to have i)een carefidly and conscientiously jierfbrmed. The price of the 
English edition is, howeverj much more than that of the German ; the plates 
being the same, and probably imported in their finished state into this country. 
* See the statement of Bishop Wilson, " History of the Isle of Man," p. 314 :—" Large trees 
of oak and fir have been found, some (wo feet and a half in diameter ; they do not lie promiscu- 
ously, but where there is plenty of one soil there ars generally few or none of the other." 
