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above the level of the Atlaritic Ocean, is reckoned to be 16,800 feet. The whole 
chain is granite. 
Arctic Voyage.—On the 25th of July Captain Ross was in lat. 57° 8. The 
fair wind with which they had sailed left them the day after, and they lost part 
of their fore-mast; but would not touch at any port to refit, lest it should give 
rise to unfavourable reports. After five days more, they got again a fair wind, 
which in 2 fortnight carried them to the harbour ‘of Holsteinberg in Greenland, 
where they providentially found the Rockwood of London, deserted by her crew, 
and from which, therefore, they replaced their mast, and. supplied themselves 
with provisions and stores. In a few hours afterwards, they sailed in a2 more 
complete state than when they left England. They were all in good health and 
Spirits, and had received the most cheering account possible of the state of the 
ice. The wind was fair, the weather extremely favourable, and the crew behav- 
ing in a most exemplary manner. The newspapers further add, that Captain 
James Clark Ross, F. R. S. the captain’s nephew, who accompanied him and 
Captain Sir E. Parry in all the former voyages to the polar regions, has also gone 
‘out in the present expedition. 
Etymology of Kasbec, in the Caucasus.—_Mr. Bell informs us in a communi- 
cation, that Kasbec is not the name of the mountain which Parrot and Engle- 
hardt ascended in the Caucasus, but the title of the Caucasian chief to whom 
that mountain and district belong. It signifies the lord of the mountain, or, as 
we would say in Scotch, the laird of the hill; and yet this gentleman is very 
pleasantly styled, in Robert Kerr Porter’s narrative, General Kasbec. The name 
of the mountain which those celebrated travellers ascended, is Mquinari in Geor- 
gian. We find that, in these countries, and more especially in Russia, an ety- 
mology, composed of an appendage to the family name, derived from the place of a 
military exploit, or the seat of large possessions, has been in constant use. Thus 
Field-Marshall Romanzoff, the first Russian commander who, in modern times, 
forced the passage of the Danube, was honoured with the surname of Sadunais- 
koi, or the ultra-Danubian, and the epithet “‘ Sabalkaniskoi,” has been affixed 
to the name ef Count Diebitsch, signifying ultra-Balkanite, or passer of the Bal- 
kan. From our own notes, we find that the mountain is indifferently spelt Kas- 
bec, Kasibek, Kaprybeg, and Ghazibeg, and that Klaproth calls it Meguinivari, 
(Snow mountain.) It is also called Tseritai Tsoub, Peak of Christ or Khotkh ; 
as Mount Ghazibeg, in the Turkish language, means Hero of the True Faith. 
According to Englehardt and Parrot, its elevation is 14,00@ feet, and according 
to Mr Bell 15,360. 
Dr. Belenger’s Travels.—Baron Cuvier, in the name of a numerous commis- 
sion chosen from the different sections of the Academy of Sciences, gave in, at 
the meeting of the 28th Sept. 1829, a very favourable report on the collections 
made by Dr. Belenger in his journey te the East tnciee, to which country he 
went by land with Mr. Desbassyus. 
The Baron Cuvier, specially charged with the Pclieieal part of the journey, 
Mr. Mirbel, who examined the botanical, and Mr. Latreille the entomological, 
united in giving the greatest praise, not only to the riches brought home by Dr. 
B. but to the disinterested zeal which led him to make these collections. The 
commission hoped that the Academy would inform the ministry, how important 
it would be fer science that the publication of the results of Dr. Belenger’s voy- 
age should be favoured. 
Lieutenant Holman, R. N.—This eccentric traveller, whose name we have 
already had occasion to mention in these pages, was, we find, in the month of 
July at Port Louis, in the island of Mauritius. Dr. Lyall and his lady had ar- 
rived there on the same day, having been persecuted and driven out of Mada- 
