SCIENTIFIC NEWS, 
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€. in the course of each minute, with about twenty pints expen- 
diture of water from the cistern. 
The small syphon must have an overflowing vessel to itself. 
I am. 
Sir, 
Your most obedient, humble Servant, 
W. CLOSE, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Geological Society . 
June 4 1 1813, 
The President in the Chair. 
The Duke of Devonshire, 
John Whishaw, Esq., of New Square, Lincoln’s Inn, 
Henry Drummond, Esq. 
Charles Price, M. D. Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, 
William Lowndes, Esql of Somerset Place, 
Vi count Kirkwall, M, P. 
Alexander Sutherland, M. D. of Great George Street, West* 
minster, 
George Wilbraham, Esq. of Upper Seymour Street, Portman 
Square, 
were severally elected members of the Society. 
An account of the Isle of Man, by J. F. Berger, M.D. 
M. G. S. was read. 
The length of the Isle of Man, from N. E. to S. W. exceeds 
thirty English miles, and its breadth varies from eight to fifteen 
miles. About five miles from the northern extremity a moun- 
tainous tract commences running parallel to the eastern coasf 
of the island, and also forming the smail detached island called 
the Calf of Man, situated at the southern extremity of the 
iarger one. This belt, or chain of high land is divided by three* 
transverse vallies, of which two are situated in the larger island, 
and the third forms the strait that separates the one island from 
the 
