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London, England, 1827-01-30 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1827.

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CASE OF THE LATE DUKE OF YORK, &c. &c.

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SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

SUBTERRANEAN SOUNDS HEARD AT NAKOUS, ON

THE RED SEA.

Baron Humboldt informs us, on the authority of most
credible witnesses, that subterranean sounds like those of
an organ are heard towards sunrise, by those who sleep
upon the granite rocks on the banks of the Orinoco.—
Messrs. Jornard, Jollois,and Devilliers, three of the natu-
ralists who accompanied Bonaparte to Egypt, heard at
sunrise a noise like that of a string breaking, in a granite
monument placed at the centre of the spot on which the
palace of Carnac stands.
Sounds of a nature analogous to these have been heard
by Mr. Gray of University College, Oxford, at a place
called Nakous, (which signifies a bell,) at three leagues
from Tor, on the Red Sea. This place which is covered
;with sandiand surrounded with low rocks in the form of
an amphitheatre, presents a steep declivity towards the sea,
from which it is half a mile distant. It has a height of
about 300 feet upon 80 feet of width. It has received the
name of a bell, because it emits sounds, not as the statue
of Memnon formerly did at sunrise, but at every hour of
the day and night, end at all seasons. The first time that
Mr. Gray visited this place, he heard at the end of a quarter
of an hour a low continuous murmuring sound beneath his
feet, which gradually changed into pulsations as it became
louder, so as to resemble the striking of a clock, and even
to detach the sand. *

Anxious to discover the cause of this phenomenon,
which no preceding traveller had mentioned, Mr. Gray
returned to the spot next day, and remained an hour to
hear the sound, which was, on that occasion, heard much
louder than before. As the sky was serene, and the air
calm, he was satisfied that the sound could not be attri-
buted to the introduction of the external air ;±, and in ad-
dition to this, he could not observe any crevices by which
the external air could penetrate. The Arabs of the desert
ascribe these sounds to a Convent of Monks, preserved
miraculously under ground, and they are of opinion that
the sound is that of their bell. Others think that it arises
from volcanic causes; and they found this opinion on the
fact that the hot baths of Pharaoh are on the same coast.
M. Seetzen has given a similar account of Nakous, in
Zack's Ephemerides for October, 1812.—See Daube-
ney's Description of Active and Extinct Volcanoes.
London : 1826—p. 437.

The people of Tor declare, that the camels are frightened and
rendered furious by these sounds.

t Mr•. Humboldt ascribes the sound in the granite rocks to the
difference of temperature between the external air and the air in
the narrow and deep crevices of the shelves of rocks. These cre-
vices, he informs us, are often heated to 48 or 50 deg. during the
day, and the temperature of their surface was often 39, when that
of the external air was only 28 deg.—Humboldt's Personal Narra-
tive, vol. iv.

METHOD of PREVENTING by MEANS of GALVINISM
the FORMATION of CALCAREOUS DEPOSITS in
LEADEN WATER-PIPES.

In districts where the springs are impregnated with
carbonate of lime, it is well known that a calcareous deposit
is formed upon pipes, &c. M. Dumas• has suggested a
_method vf pravgnting -this..aa -the falkwing
In a vessel containing such water he immersed a galvanic
combination. At the end of two days he found the sur-
face of the copper only, covered with the deposit. Again,
a plate of silver, soldered to a bar of lead, was immersed,
and at the end of six months the silver was found covered
with deposit, while the lead was perfectly clean Be
therefore proposes to place at different distances along
a leaden water-pipe, other short and small pipes perpen-
dicular to the first, and communicating with it, but closed
at the other end, yet capable of being occasionally opened,
into which from time to time may be inserted small bars
of iron, and the end then closed. These bars being
more electro-negative than the lead, will have the calca-
reous deposit formed solely upon them, while the lead will
be perfectly preserved. After a time they will require
renewal.---See the Edinburgh Journal of Science, No. XI.
page 163.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE.-THE KING'S ROOMS.

That his Majesty prefers small and comfortable rooms
for his common abode, to spacious and magnificent state
chambers, has frequently been mentioned ; but that the
greatest potentate in the world should be contented and
happy with a suite of apartments (as his metropolitan pa-
lace) which would hardly satisfy a country esquire in a
shooting box, is, perhaps, news to his people. It is, how-
ever, even so; we had an opportunity of walking through
them, during a late mournful occasion, and what we de-
scribe is from personal observation.

The private apartments are on the ground floor, at the
west end of St. James's : principally beneath the throne-
room and audience chamber in the range above. There is
one entrance by the Engine Court from the northern side,
chiefly for officers sad attendants, &c., and another, for his
Majesty, from the garden on the side- of the Park. The
latter opens into a small vestibule, whence the stair (and
a most conveniently constructed one it is) runs up to the
state-rooms in the superior tier. On the right and left of
this vestibule, as you enter from the Park, are all the
King requires_for his dwelling-place, consisting of one
chamber on the left hand, and four on the right, with a
single bed-room and a room for his page above. Parallel
to the lower suite are four apartments looking into Engine
Court for the officers and attendants.

The decorations throughout are of a very humble des-
cription, sans glitter, sans gold, sans finery. The walls are
covered with an ordinary paper; the chimney-pieces of
plain marble ; and the whole furniture composed of rose-
wood and simple chintz calico, such as may he seen in any
private gentleman's habitation. We would say, that the
rooms are rather of small dimensions; for example, his
Majesty, in his dining room, could not well dine more, than
half-a-dozen in comfort. Such is the accommodation of the
King of Great Britain, at this good day, in the capital of his
kingdom. We should notice, that the principal ornaments
of these rooms are derived from the Arts, of which his
Majesty is so judicious as well as so liberal a patron. Three
of the four are hung round with ' pictures from various of
the Royal Palaces : and what, if we could venture to give
our humble opinion on such a point, reflects great credit on
the selection, is, that they are all of a beautiful and pleasing
character.

In passing through the royal closet to the funeral cham-
ber of the late lamented Commander-in-Chief, our atten-
tion was attracted by. a model, which on inquiry we found
to be that of the Fountain proposed to be erected in the
centre of the opening which will be made by the removal
of Carlton House. - We examined it slightly, and per-
ceived that it was an octagon, of four principal and four
smaller .sides :- each of the smaller sides formed of two
columns, supporting an attic on which are placed the Prince
of Wales's Plume and two lions couchant. The larger sides
are each formed of an open colonnade of four colnmns.
consequently 16 in all, in- which we recognised the eight
noble columns of the portico in Carlton House, to which, of
course, eight similarly magnificent columns arc to be added.
We could have liked to see these, our old favourites in
London architecture, better applied. Over each of the
chief intercolumniations or sides, there appeared to-run a
row of balusters; the whole crowned by a ponderous
dome. The entire structure stands upon a flight of steps.
At each .coraers is a jet d' eau, of dolphinavlige.
and basin (we presume for the public, and long a deside-
turn in the metropolis). In the centre under the dome,
is the principal jet, beautifully composed of naiads and
other classical forms. Apropos, the employment of the
portico columns noticed above, is not the only application
of the fine materials of his Majesty's late residence to other
uses. Some of the newspapers seemed to have "found'
tongues in stones 9" for they have absolutelrappropriated
the well-kown and much-admired screen in Pall-mall to a
hundred different destinations : the Duke of Devonshire
had got it for Piccadilly, and the Duke of Wellington for
Hyde Park-corner; but, after all, as we have long known,
it is to form the conservatories which terminate the terrace
to the west front of Buckingham Palace, which we de-
scribed in our Gazelle many months ago.
Perhaps we ought to say, that the Palace of St. James's
is appropriated to state purposes..—for levees, drawing-
- rooms, banquets, ball, &c., of which we most sincerely
wish there were ten times as many as there are, because we
are persuaded there is not in Europe a Royal building so
well arranged for such entertainments mid ceremonies.
But for our gracious King, he takes the corner of the
house, and seems to be perfectly satisfied with a set of
rooms which could not be boasted of by the youngest en-
sign of his guards ! Literary Gazelle.