Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-10-27

nourishmcnt Of the sailors who went under Gap
tain Parry's command TO the North PoIe-a con-
centraton Of the nutritious qualities OF meat 30
powerful, that Fifty pounds Of beef make ABOUT
square inch Of il; as much Of it scraped as VIII
lie ON a shilling, will feed fellow six feet high
and four feet broad. for two and twenty hours;
its great merit is of course its portability and Its
utility must be evident to the1most inveterate'y
preiudiced lsndsnan, when he'comes to consider
that Jack can carry quarter OF bullock IN MS
tobacco box, and stow away half dozen hams
and fllet OF veal in the fob OF his trousers.
Ladv E-M-B.-H-Th report. says the
Court Journal, to which we alluded last week
merely as a report, of the divorced wife OF an
English peer being now avowrdiy 'under the
protection of crowned head, IS we have reason
to believe. perfectly correct. we are assar-
ed that not long ago, the marked attention OF me
sovereign in question to this lady, and his equal
ly marked neglect of his queen, produced What
the French call scene at court. Her majesty
refused to receive the lady and being command
ed by the king to do so. instead OF complying
made an appeal to some of the principal couriers,
and s,aid away when the lady was presented
II was pretended by the king, for time, that the
fas,on. was platonic. but this pre,ence obtained
so little credit that it was soon abandoned.
Tn one of the late English journals we find the
following account OF remarkable subterraneous
fires which have been witnessed in Geneva and
its neghborhood. The article is dated Lake of
Geneva, August 10:
The extraordinary heat which has prevailed
almost without interruption for nine weeks, has
produced phenomenon in the countries border
ing on our lake, to which there is no parallel on
record. At Geneva, a spontaneous combustion
took place in the church yard Of Plain Palais,
though in rather damp plain, (plana palais J
The high grass on the graves, the cypress and
the mir trees. took fire, and it was necessary to
bring the engines to extinguish it, which was
effected, but not without difficulty. more re-
markabe event took place in Savoy, near the
village of Maryia province of Faucigny): All
at once The alarm bell was sounded, not only IN
the village, but the whule country, and in the
whole valley, to summon the inhabitants with all
speed to extinguish dangerous fire OF kind hi
herto unhear,l Of: 70, it not houses or trees.
or heath. that were burning but the roots of trees
two feet under ground! This strange fire took
place at Scelne lin the commune ut Arrache. y
Nothing appeared on the surface; the furze and
fell. and were then consumed by the fire that
burnt from the roots!
The people Indeed ielled the woods that the
fire might not spread. aud would willingly have
turned up the ground To ex'nguSh the fire that
was burning roots: but IN the terrlbl" drought
where ~ ere they to get waterF This subterrane-
Gus fire, therefore consumed ESQ acres ct fine
forest. The fear Of the -ubterfaneous ire had
such an elT.ct on toe inhabitants THAT many
villages. tor instance, COsane, were whoii1 de-
serted. and as the people were also afraid OF 20
ing lutn the forest. they remained exposed 10 thu
sr0rching rays st the sun, generally 40 deg. ot
R-aumur ne deg. OF Fahrenheit in the naked
plain, wnere the wells began TO dry up. his
subterranpous fire is doubtless closely connect
ed with the flames which at the same time issued
from the earth IN the several places in Lausanne.
The rain which came a few days ago, and consi-
derablv lowered the temperature, seems to have
checked the Ere. though many persons Tear that
the rain vas by M means Of sufficient con'inu'
ance /, penetrate so deep into the earth as to re-
move ali danger Of the fires beginning again on
the return oi hot. dry weather, such as seems to
be setting in.