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Miscellaneous Notices, 
[Sept. 
of them for your inspection. I have already given you specimens of niy drawing, 
which I fear may be considered derogatory to the Gleanings ; nevertheless, they may 
serve my purpose, which is to make description a little more intelligible than it 
otherwise would be. Fig. 3, letter b, represents the natural size of the insect — its 
black head being the most conspicuous part of the body, and c the magnified size, 
as seen with a small pocket lens. I shall, dear Mr. Editor, feel much obliged to 
yourself, or any of your able correspondents, for further information respecting 
this insect. I have the honor, &c. 
Sept. 1830. - Tyro. 
VIII . — Miscellaneous Notices. 
1. Climate of the Cusia Hills. 
We have been favored with a sight of a letter from one of the party lately pro- 
ceeded to the Cdsia Hills, from which the following is an extract. 
“ I have the pleasure to send you Meteorological Observations for three days, 
taken at our quarters, at Cherra Punji. The barometer is placed near a door 
with Venetians, freely exposed to the air ; the door opens to the west, and the baro- 
meter and thermometers are perfectly shaded from the sun : the latter hangs quite 
free, and close to the former. The place where the former observation was taken 
with the barometer, and from which the calculation of the height has been made, i3 
situated about one mile and a half to the W. N. W. of our quarters, beyond the 
village of Cherra, and from guess, I should think about 500 feet above this place. 
The men suffered greatly in their journey from the boats, which they left at Pandua, 
to their quarters here ; but in spite of the bad weather we have had since our 
arrival, they have all improved, especially two men, who had very bad attacks of 
low marsh remittent fever, got at Terriuh Ghat, a swampy place, at the foot of the 
Hills, surrounded with jungle, where we lay in tents for three or four days, until 
the necessary arrangements could be made for the invalids. I will write again in a 
few days, and give some account of our journey, and the appearance of this place. 
1 send you also an extract from the Meteorological Table kept by me in my 
boat, at Pandua, to compare with the other, and see the sudden change you un- 
dergo from the plains to the mountain of course the heat in a boat would be 
a little greater than on shore. 
Barometer and Thermometer at Pandua , on the 2 9th September. 
Sunrise. Bar. 29,722 Ther. 82 M. B. Ther. 79,5 Calm. A clear sky. 
10 A. j 782 89 83 Light wind from the wt. : cr. sky. 
Noon, ,760 89 83,7 Nearly calm ; clear sky. 
2 p« M. ,700 92 84,5 Dead calm : clear sky. 
,650 92,5 84,5 Nearly calm ; ditto. 
There were clouds hanging over the hills, but the sky above us was clear, and 
the weather very hot. 
Barometer and Thermometer at Cherra 
Sunrise. Bar. 25,750 Ther. 67 M. B. Ther. 
10 a.m. ,800 67 
Noou. ,778 67 
2p.m. ,744 66^ 
4p.m. ,706 66,5 
October 
Sunrise. Bar. 25,750 Ther. 65, 5M.B. Ther. 
10 a. m. ,799 67 
Noon. ,768 66 
2 A. m. ,744 66,5 
4 p.m. ,719 66,5 
Punji, on the 8 th of October , 1830. 
67 Wd. s. w., heavy rain, sky overcast. 
67 Do. do. thunder. 
66 Do. with heavy squalls and rain. 
66; 6 Do. do. 
66,5 Do. do. 
9 th. 
65,2 Heavy squalls and rain; Wd.S.S.W. 
66,9 Do. do. 
66 Do. do. 
66,5 Do do. 
66 Do. do. 
“ The Self-Registering Thermometer was, on the night of the 8th, as low as 62°. 
uring the two days it was one continual heavy rain, with strong squalls from 
t le south-west and south-south-west, with thunder and occasional lightning. The 
c ouds driving along the hills so, that sometimes you could not see twenty yards. 
my thing, 10 th in and out of doors, damp and uncomfortable. Yet the men are 
^ - 1 rll P ro yi- n g' an( l are most of them out to-day, the 10th, the rain having ceased 
siitfpr' 01 at ^, A ' M * * the sun * s 0llt > an d the breeze sharp and bracing; but I am 
days ^ fl ° m cold > produced b y re P ea *ed duckings, during the first two or three 
