immediately proceeded with mules over a picturesque country of forests, hills, and the murmuring of 'soft waters,' followed by a clear, beautiful champaign country. After a ride of fourteen miles, we reached the memorable and dilapidated city of Rivas, situated on Lake Nicaragua. This is really a beautiful sheet of water, with two large mountains rising from the centre. At Rivas we were detained three days and four hours, waiting for baggage, &c., but all this delay will of course be obviated by the next trip, as the Commodore will have everything in locomotive order. From this city we embarked on board the steamer Director, and ran down the lake to Fort San Carlos, thence to the Rapids of Castille, a distance of 104 miles, where we embarked on board the new iron steamer, Sir H. L. Bulwer, and proceeded at a rapid rate down the San Juan river. The air was serene, the river placid, and the banks studded with trees clothed in 'perpetual green.' We arrived at San Juan, on the Atlantic, in 30 hours' running time from the Pacific to the Atlantic, all well. At this point we embarked on board the steam ship Prometheus. I must not omit to inform you that Commodore Vanderbilt was with his passengers on the overland route, and did all that could be wished to expedite matters. I am convinced that the route from New York to San Francisco by this travel' can and will be made by the next trip in, at the furthermost, 23 days, through a beautiful country, perfectly healthy, the inhabitants kind, attentive and obliging. METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER. Kept at Croom's Hill, Greenwich, by Mr. Rogerson, of the Royal Observatory, From the 21st of July, to the 20th of August, 1851. July, 1851.--Mean height of the barometer = 29-879 inches; mean temperature degrees; depth of rain fallen = 4 380 inches. 61-1 Capt. Burnett's and Capt. Franklyn's letters shall be attended to.-ED. Hunt and Son, Printers, 6, New Church Street, Edgware Road. OCTOBER, 1851. 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The 'Sargasso' or Sargassian Sea, well known to all navigators who have crossed the Atlantic, is a large tract of ocean lying between the latitudes of from 20° to 36° N., and the longitudes 25° to 40° W., where the weed (fucus natans) is so thick in some parts as to impede a vessel's progress in light winds, presenting to the eye from one margin of the horizon to the other the appearance of a boundless inundated meadow. Abundance of small swimming crabs, pediculi, pipefish, hippocampiminori, &c., exist amongst this weed, which is also covered on its berries and branches with minute zoophites and coralline incrustations, and I have frequently picked up pieces of wreck and broken spars amongst it covered with barnacles, and eaten through by "Columbus in his first voyage of discovery passed through a portion of this sea, subsequently named by him El Mar de Sargazo, and it is recorded that the Phoenicians became acquainted with this weedy sea,' in their early voyages of discovery to the Atlantides, or Hesperedian Islands of Plato. I have no doubt but that vessels passing through this grassy sea,' receive on their bottoms and wales above the copper, the germs both of weeds and zoophitic animals. Hence the clusters of barnacles, &c., found adhering to them on arrival in Europe, both on the copper and bends, and the latter are too frequently found to be pierced by the 'teredo," although the vessel may have loaded in a port said to be free from this destructive animal. "The creature which commits such havoc on piles, buoys, boats, &c., in the Southampton waters and other ports of the United Kingdom, does not appear to belong to the vermicular class, but is a small insect resembling a weeval; it forms no shelly concretion like the true teredo navalis,' and confines its ravages to the surface, although gradually destroying the wood, leaving only the knots. A similar insect exists in the Bay of Callao (port of Lima) and in Halifax (Nova Scotia) which is found to be very destructive to piles, buoys, &c.' GEORGE PEACOCK, Dock Master, Southampton. SPECIMENS MAY BE SEEN AT MR. GEORGE SEYMOUR'S, SUN COURT, CORNHILL. SOLE AGENTS. London-Geo. Seymour, Sun Court, Cornhill | Falmouth -E. 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