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Title: The Science record; a compendium of scientific progress and discovery
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Beach, Alfred Ely, 1826-1896
Subjects: Technology Industrial arts
Publisher: New York, Munn
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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truck by light-ning ;. but most absolute security is obtained by lying onan iron or brass bedstead, of the form known as the Ara-bian bedstead, in which the head is surmounted by an ironerection supporting the curtains. A person lying orsleeping on such a bedstead could not possibly receive anydirect injury, even if the house were demolished, and hisbedstead forms a most complete lightning*protector. An extinct volcano in the island of Niseros, one of theSporades, Grecian Archipelago, resumed its activity dur-ing the month of June. About the 10th, new craters wereopened, from which were emitted ashes, stones, and lava,which covered the ground to a considerable extent. Nu-merous crevices were formed in the sides of the mountain,from which hot water flowed. Earthquake shocks were ofdaily occurrence, causing the greatest alarm to the inha-bitants. The shocks did not extend to the surroundingislands, but the smoke from the craters was plainly seenfrom Rhodes, which is fifty miles distant.
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SIR SAMUEL AND LADY EAKEIt. GEOGRAPHY. 513 GEOGRAPHY. THE UPPER NILE REGIONS. Among recent occurrences of geographical interest wasthe meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, London,when Sir Samuel Baker, lately returned from his greatAfrican expedition, gave an account of the regions he hadvisited and the results accomplished. Sir Samuel Baker,it will be remembered, was the discoverer, in 1864, of thegreat interior African lake and source of the Nile River,the lake Albert NYanza. The expedition, from which hehas lately returned, was undertaken in the service of theViceroy of Egypt, at the head of a military force, the ob-ject being to drive out the slave-traders in the upper re-gion of the Nile, and open that rich and splendid countryto the arts of civilization and modern progress. SirSamuel was received with great enthusiasm by the Society. Sir Bartle Frere took the chair, and said that thosepresent might feel in the position of our ancestors whenone of their fellow-Englishmen, l

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