another connection.

[5] All attempts to produce this result by the sudden exhaustion of air
about the chickens in receivers, or shooting them from cannons, have
failed, and no patent for a chicken-picker has been applied for.

[6] A meter is 1 yard, and .0936 of a yard.

[7] See his map, accompanying the Geography of the Sea.

[8] See Am. Jour. of Science, New Series, Vol. 18. p. 187.

[9] Their estimate was 100 to 120 miles.

[10] Since the text was in type, and, as might have been anticipated, we
have intelligence confirmatory of this, from the Cape De Verde Islands.
The inter-tropical belt of rains has not moved as far north as the
northern islands--they have had no rain--and the people are in a starving
condition.

Transcriber's Notes:

Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.

Punctuation has been corrected without note.

The following misprints have been corrected:
"appearnces" corrected to "appearances" (page 44)
"Faroday's" corrected to "Faraday's" (page 84)
"gentleman" corrected to "gentlemen" (page 96)
"two" corrected to "too" (page 105)
"surise" corrected to "sunrise" (page 111)
"acion" corrected to "action" (page 164)
"Stanta corrected to "Santa" (page 167)
"Augugst" corrected to "August" (page 167)
"baloon's" corrected to "balloon's" (page 192)
"mannner" corrected to "manner" (page 214)
"1198" corrected to "1798" (page 221)
"sevententh" corrected to "seventeenth" (page 240)
"maner" corrected to "manner" (page 254)
"particulary" corrected to "particularly" (page 256)
"are are" corrected to "are" (page 288)
"iso-theral" corrected to "iso-thermal" (page 299)
"the the" corrected to "the" (page 360)
"phenonema" corrected to "phenomena" (page 403)
"calorifice" corrected to "calorific" (page 409)

Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and
hyphenation have been retained from the original.

Tables throughout this text version have been adjusted for readability.

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