The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX: April-October 1850Various
Science
The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX: April-October 1850
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The breadth marked is intended to show the difference between the
size of the Zonga, after its junction with the Tamunakle and
before it. The farther it runs east, the narrower it becomes. The
course is shewn by the arrow-heads. _The rivers not seen, but
reported by the natives_, are put down in dotted lines. The dotted
lines running north of the river and lake, shew the probable
course of the Tamunakle, and another river which falls into the
lake at its north-west extremity. The arrow-heads shew also the
direction of _its_ flow. At the part marked by the name of the
Chief Mosing it is not more than 50 or 60 yards in breadth, while
at 20° 7´ it is more than 100, and very deep.
The principal disease reported to prevail at certain seasons
appears, from the account of the symptoms the natives give, to be
pneumonia and not fever. When the wind rises to an ordinary
breeze, such immense clouds of dust arise from the numerous
dried-out lakes called salt-pans, that the whole atmosphere
becomes quite yellow, and one cannot distinguish objects more than
two miles off. It causes irritation in the eyes, and, as wind
prevails almost constantly at certain seasons, this impalpable
powder may act as it does among the grinders in Sheffield. We
observed cough among them, a complaint almost unknown at Kolobeng.
Musquitoes swarm in summer, and the Banyan and Palmyra give in
some parts an Indian cast to the scenery.
(Signed) DAVID LIVINGSTON.
_A Brief Sketch of the Geology of the West Indies,
from_ Dr DAVY'S _Lectures on the Study of Chemistry,
drawn up chiefly from the Author's own Observations_.[88]
Communicated for the Philosophical Journal.
Footnote 88: Lectures on the Study of Chemistry, in connection
with the Atmosphere, the Earth and the Ocean, and Discourses on
Agriculture, with Introductions on the present State of the West
Indies, and on the Agricultural Societies of Barbados. By JOHN
DAVY, M.D., F.R.S., &c. London, Longmans. 1850.
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