[See Supra.] A Very Striking Account Of A Phenomenon Of This Kind Regarded As Supernatural Is Given By Friar Odoric, Whose Experience I Fancy I Have Traced To The Reg Ruwan Or "Flowing Sand" North Of Kabul.

Besides this celebrated example, which has been described also by the Emperor Baber, I have noted that equally well-

Known one of the Jibal Nakus, or "Hill of the Bell," in the Sinai Desert; Wadi Hamade, in the vicinity of the same Desert; the Jibal-ul-Thabul, or "Hill of the Drums," between Medina and Mecca; one on the Island of Eigg, in the Hebrides, discovered by Hugh Miller; one among the Medanos or Sandhills of Arequipa, described to me by Mr. C. Markham; the Bramador or rumbling mountain of Tarapaca; one in hills between the Ulba and the Irtish, in the vicinity of the Altai, called the Almanac Hills, because the sounds are supposed to prognosticate weather-changes; and a remarkable example near Kolberg on the shore of Pomerania. A Chinese narrative of the 10th century mentions the phenomenon as known near Kwachau, on the eastern border of the Lop Desert, under the name of the "Singing Sands"; and Sir F. Goldsmid has recently made us acquainted with a second Reg Ruwan, on a hill near the Perso-Afghan frontier, a little to the north of Sistan. The place is frequented in pilgrimage. (See Cathay, pp. ccxliv. 156, 398; Ritter, II. 204; Aus der Natur, Leipzig, No. 47 [of 1868], p. 752; Remusat, H. de Khotan, p. 74; Proc.

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