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was the report of Prof. Palmieri. As yet arrived from many places in the neighthe mountain has not spoken, but on Mon-bourhood, and others at a considerable day morning Naples was shaken at 3h. distance, describing the terror of the in24m. by a severe shock of earthquake, and habitants. At Resina and the other towns the panic created by it was intense. Late, under the mountain the panic was excesor early as it was, nearly the whole popu- sive, for the movement was attributed to lation turned into the streets, despite the Vesuvius, and an eruption was expected rain, which was coming down in torrents. immediately. The shock was felt all Most were on foot, many in carriages; round the coast, and even on the islands. and all made for the open places, such as Nola, Caserta, Benevento, Foggia, and the Molo, the Piazza del Dante, or the Bari were shaken. At Caserta the troops Strada Vittorio Emmanuele indeed, left their barracks, and encamped in the every square was filled with a terror- squares; but in no place, as far as we stricken crowd, whose cries made the have heard at present, has there been any scene yet more terrific. Omnibuses and sacrifice of life, except in S. Marco in carriages, wherever they could be found, Lamis, where three persons were killed were taken possession of, and soon filled, and several houses thrown down. but the great proportion of the fugitives Monday night and Tuesday morning the were compelled to rough it in the open, fears of the Neapolitans were again on the half-dressed, and some in their shirts. increase, as there was an apprehension That which was dreaded was the replica that the shock might repeat itself at the -the return shock, when the earth re- end of twenty-four hours, and three o'clock turns, as it were, to its normal condition. in the morning was waited for with nervHappily it did not take place, and at dawn ous agitation. Few went to bed, or if a shivering crowd returned to their homes, they did they lay down dressed, or with to find, many of them, that they had been their clothes near them, ready for a start. robbed in their absence. Report then be- Many formed parties in their houses, as if gan to be busy, and heavy disasters were death would be less awful in the company related to have occurred in various parts of friends, but more were in the streetsof the city-statements which were read- the cafés were crowded, and carriages ily received, as nothing is so credulous as again were utilized as sleeping-chambers. fear. No great damage, however, was Many too - and it reminds us of one or occasioned; several half-built or rickety two incidents connected with the history houses were thrown down, some houses of Pompeii-packed up their jewellery, and public buildings were more or less ready to be carried off at the first alarm, damaged, as the Alberga dei Poveri, some and one lady, says a journalist, sent off barracks, and a hospital, from which the "her adored parrot," to be restored when sick were removed on that inclement night. demanded, or to be retained in case of Yet the incidents following on the shock accident. were sufficiently awful to alarm any one: the house-beils rang, the walls sensibly moved, furniture was displaced, and persons were rocked in their beds. The precise moment of the shock was marked, too, by many a watch which had stopped, but Palmieri's calculation could not be erroneous. He describes it as having travelled from north-west to south-east, and as having been at first undulatory, then vertical, and afterwards "sussultoria," lasting altogether eighteen seconds. Every one, of course, attributed it to Vesuvius, but our professor says it had no relation with the mountain; and one proof of it is, that the movement extended over a great extent of country, and increased in intensity at an increasing distance from Naples, the centre of agitation being in Puglia, near a place called S. Marco in Lamis. There the great shock, which has been followed by several others, lasted upwards of a minute. Since Monday, despatches have

As by the rising or falling of a thermomcter one detects the changes of temperature, so by the watch alone it was possible to measure the intensity of anxiety. At midnight public feeling was very nervous. At one o'clock on Tuesday morning there was a vast amount, or display, of devotion - litanies were sung and saints invoked; and so it continued till three o'clock, when the awful moment approached. At 3h. 24m. fear was at its height, but the hand moved on, and the dreaded shock was not felt. Still there might be some delay — clocks might be wrong; yet no-time went on and nothing happened, so that litanies ceased to be sung, and thousands who had spent a night of intensest agony on the damp pavement, went home, chilled to the marrow, indeed, but allegramente. Since then there has been no further alarm here, at least. Vesuvius, as I look upon it, wears an aspect full of innocence; it is covered with snow, but underneath are

raging fires, which may burst out at any sure, the necessity of earthquakes followmoment. As far as human science can ing upon such a process in a volcanic predict, an eruption will take place before region will be apparent. For thus the long. It is not improbable that the unu- heated interior becomes opened to the sual quantity of rain which has fallen this admission of water; the generation of year may have precipitated the phenomena steam - the sudden shock - the far-exI have reported, for Prof. Phillips, in his tended vibratory motion, are consequences "Vesuvius," says, "Internal fissures aris- of a slow change of dimensions, in presing from some kind of accumulating presence of internal heat and admitted water."

H. W.

EGYPTIAN BIRDS AND ANIMALS. It is to represent a "widow woman," they drew a worthy of notice that among the feathered and black dove; neither the above nor the pigeon four-legged animals domesticated by the an- have been found embalmed. The monkeys cient Egyptians, ducks are not represented; were sacred to the god Thoth, secretary to moreover, it may be observed that there are Osiris, the Jupiter of the old Egyptians. One no data to show that the domestic fowl was species is evidently the dog-faced ape (Simia known to the ancient Egyptians. The object hamadryas) a native of Ethiopia, from whence so called on the cartouche of the builder of it was probably obtained; it appears conthe Great Pryamid resembles a chick, both instantly in the hieroglyphic writings, as well appearance and figure, but it might be the as in pictures and statues, the visage in the young of the quail, which is still plentiful latter being often half-dog, half-monkey. The throughout the cultivated districts. There is other is the little green monkey of Ethiopia; a picture on one of the tombs, and another in both are common in museums. The presence the British Museum, where geese, quail, and of the camel in Egypt during the sojourn of evidently ducks, are being salted and pre- Abraham is a matter of history, and yet, served for future use. Pigeons, both wild strange to say, it has never been met with in and domesticated, have been plentiful in the paintings or hieroglyphics. The feathers Egypt from very carly times. The common of the ostrich are seen on the heads of the rock-pigeon (C. livia) is generally distributed, gods, and were, no doubt, brought from the and its compeer of the dovecot often returns south by the tribes as tribute, or obtained to the rocky wilds. Every town of any pre- during conquests. The elephant also appears tensions has a public pigeon-house, more on in pictures; but none of these seem to have account of the economic value of the manure been either sacred or emblematic of a deity. than for the birds. At Sioot it is a lively Colburn's New Monthly Magazine scene to sit in your boat and watch them swarming about the houses and settling on the tops of palm-trees, or, like sea-gulls, hovering over the river for the purpose of picking up refuse thrown overboard. The traveller THE Communistic principles which are so inquisitive on points connected with natural alarmingly in the ascendant in Scandinavia history will do well to examine the walls of may perhaps be explained by the low state of the Theban temples. On that of Medinet the higher education, a fact which has reHaboo, there is observed a very vivid repre-ceived a strong confirmation in the statistics sentation of the coronation of the warrior lately published of the condition of the varimonarch, Rameses III. (B.C. 1300.) Here, ous universities. The retrograde tendency is among all the state display of the times, are shown in the most startling form in the Unishown priests in their robes letting off carrier-versity of Christiania, where the number of pigeons, which seem to be conveying tidings students, over 1,000 at the end of the corre of the event to distant points - indeed, Egyp- sponding term last year, now scarcely exceeds tiologists assert that there are notices in an- Soo. In Sweden the contempt for literature cient papyrus manuscripts of tamed pigeons has not passed so far as in Denmark or Norhaving been used in Egypt as articles of food way; but in one university at least (Lund) we no less than three thousand years, and up- find a serious diminution in the number of wards, before the birth of Christ, thus testify- students. The sentimental teaching given at ing to the long domestication of the pigeon. the popular Höifolkeskoler, consisting chiefly The turtle-dove (T. Senegalensis) is univer- of ballads and the elements of rhetoric, may sally distributed over the habitable parts of foster patriotism, but is no adequate substi Egypt and Nubia, and breeds in the middle of tute for a university education. Academy. the large towns. When the ancients wished

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