--_Sir Walter Scott--in the Quarterly Review._
_Coals in the East._
The Dutch newspapers state, that extensive coal mines have been
discovered in Sumatra and Bantam.
_Naphtha_
Has been found to burn much better than other oils in mines where bad
air prevails, and is less injurious to the health of the workmen. Oil of
colza and tallow are extinguished, where naphtha, petroleum, and oil of
bone, continue burning.
_Fossils._
Plates of above 600 fossil bones, (remains of a former world) recently
discovered in the neighbourhood of Issoire, in France, are preparing for
publication. They belong to more than 50 species of animals, now
extinct; among which are elephants, horses, tapirs, rhinoceri, eleven or
twelve kinds of stags, large cats, oxen, bears, dogs, otters, &c.
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
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POTIER, THE FRENCH "LISTON."
Potier, generally speaking--and it is the same with our own Liston--has
never Actually observed any thing of what he presents to us.
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