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Miscellaneous Notices. 
[Jan. 
The subject is not without its interest in Calcutta ; for if London be bad in this 
respect, Calcutta is worse. We wish some Mr. Wright would start up amongst us, and 
entitle himself to the gratitude of his fellow citizens, by persuading them to com- 
bine for the attainment of a plentiful supply of wholesome water. We think the 
statements published in the Gleanings on this subject offer well grounded hopes of 
discovering overflowing springs. Certainly there are grounds sufficient to warrant a 
trial ; and as it is fully to be expected that Government would so far co-operate as 
to authorise the use of one of the boring engines now in the Fort, it is obvious the 
only expense would be the labour. This expense must be trifling, and would, we 
should suppose,be cheerfully borne by the Physical Committee of the Asiatic Society, 
who might also delegate certain of their members to superintend the operation. The 
most favorable season is now approaching, and we trust will not be allowed to pass 
away without something being done. 
5. Repair of Violin Bows. 
Musical amateurs who use the violin discover often to their great annoyance, 
that no pi’ecautiouary measures will secure them against the insidious attacks of a 
little caterpillar insect, which contrives to disarm them, by destroying their bow- 
strings, and this often in places where the damage cannot be repaired but through 
the efforts of their own ingenuity and patient industry. 
To those lovers of harmonious sounds who, like me, wanting a hint as to the right 
method of setting about it, have wasted hours in a vain endeavor to adjust a new 
roll of hair to their fiddlesticks, it would be conveying information scarcely less 
interesting than a new memoir on the geology of Bundlekund to instruct them 
how this may be accomplished. That there is a proper and particular method 
l am convinced, by observing the beautiful evenness of a new Dodd compared 
with my own best imitations. 1 
} ^ i 6 com [ 1 f i€t y in an attempt to bring each single hair separately to the 
same degree of tension ; and though I have found that sufficient evenness may be 
\ dr 7 mg the vvhole throu S b a close hard brush, there still' re- 
nfHl tb ® difficulty of securing them in that good order, owing to the thickness 
^.bending the little knot in its box, Lnd sodrawingtbe S 
upon the surface much tighter than the lower half. b 
who may be able”to ’o-f™ ? the - 7° ° f S - 0me of the more in 2 eni <>us of your readers, 
ay be able to give some information on the subject to, Sir, your’s obediently, 
Phil-Harmoiiicus. 
0. Hot Spring. 
tumult; n coun®rfUriId 8 i3 o a f which attracts from the 
inhabitants of the town itself arein the 1 '!?'!! .>"1 at by w <>nten ; most of the 
bably to this habit that Steylre indebted lid '?* *" it . dail >'- an<l » » Pr- 
ance so common amongst them The t e cadaverous and unhealthy appear* 
was 103° ; bnt itTr e? for in Jnlv ‘ e » f . «'e spring, in Janiary l«t, 
of water v’aries also veJy consiierab^. 1826 1 ° b5errC<1 “ aS hi : the flow 
7 ' Contraction and Expansion of Paper. 
n °T extreme ^ °uef of t^e^con tractiorT and Txp^nsic^' 1 f^^ aS instance > tbou S h 
. 1 had a few months since laid down with the J Sest V * PapBr ’ i 
ing paper, some distances measured from an excellent* 7 ,° n » ® beet of fresb draw ' 
beam compass. The paper has nm i -^cdlent scale by Ramsden, with a good 
than that of the interior of the house butnnwT . S ” )jected *° an y drier atmosphere 
ances on the same sheet, I find that niv f »• iavin £ occa8l0ri to lay off more dis- 
now but equal to 52.700 inches. Th e > mea8uren \ ent of 52, 942 inches is 
or 1 part in 212. lhe dlfference w nearly a inch in 53 inches, 
T , 8. Notice of Hail. 
In a thunder storm, which oecuriwi ; . , 
stones were picked up as large as a henW*" Th! ^ at Seran >P or <h some hail- 
o have a concentric lamellar structure c *7 were observed, when broken, 
the coats of an onion ! The nucleus l Mn? / ornr ] e . d of successive layers similar to 
confess I am quite ata loss to imagine the enn° a 77 er C0,0ur tban the exterior. I 
o your readers give me any information > aUSe °* tbls curi °us appearance ; can any 
E. M. 
