06Q Scientific Intelligence. — Geography . 
in future maps, give more detailed representations of the 
discoveries of Franklin and Richardson, Parry and Scoresby, 
than those in the map in the second number. The important addi- 
tions made to our knowledge of the antarctic lands, by a very in- 
telligent and meritorious officer, Captain Weddel, ought also to 
be fully and carefully recorded. 
10. Distribution of Land and Water . — From the unequal dis- 
tribution of the continents and seas, the southern hemisphere 
has long been represented as eminently aquatic ; but the same 
inequality makes its appearance, when we consider the globe di- 
vided, not in the direction of the Equator, but in that of the 
Meridians. The great masses of land are collected between the 
meridians of 10° to the west, and 150° to the east of Paris; 
while the peculiarly aquatic hemisphere commences to the west- 
ward, with the meridian of the coasts of Greenland, and termi- 
nates to the east with the meridian of the eastern shores of New 
Holland, and the Kurile Isles. This unequal distribution of the 
land and water, exercises the greatest influence upon the distri- 
bution of heat at the surface of the globe, upon the inflexions of 
the isothermal lines, and upon the phenomena of climate in ge- 
neral. With reference to the inhabitants of the centre of Europe, 
the aquatic hemisphere may be called western, and the terrestrial 
hemisphere eastern, because in proceeding westward, we come 
sooner to the former than to the latter. Until the end of the 
15th century, the western hemisphere was as little known to the 
inhabitants of the eastern hemisphere, as a half of the lunar 
globe is at present, and probably will always remain to us. — 
Humboldt. 
11. Iceland .— According to the map in Gieman’s description 
of Iceland, this island lies between 63° 28', and 66° 33' N. Lat. 
The surface of the country occupies 1.800 square miles. In 
1824, the population was 50,092 souls. The whole of this po- 
pulation, extended over a considerable space, has but one phy- 
sician and four surgeons ; but 154 Christian pastors. 
MINERALOGY. 
12. Vesuvian (Idocrase) of Egg near Christiansand . — The 
crystals of Vesuvian which are found at Egg, near Christiansand 
