(Globe.) Sir Robert Ker Porter, our Consul at Caraccas, has forwarded to this country a small supply of the Victoria wheat, so much extolled by Humboldt for its productiveness and for the short period required for its growth. According to Humboldt, the produce of this wheat at La Victoria, in South America (whence it takes its name), is from 2,160 to 2,560lbs. per English acre, while in France the produce of wheat from an equal space does not exceed 800 to 960lbs. Should it retain the property of early maturity, for which it is remarkable in the other hemisphere, a crop of Vietoria wheat, sown on 15th February, would be ready for the sickle on 1st May; and if threshed and resown on 15th May, a second crop might be reaped on 29th July. (Herald.) Earthquakes at Caraccas-Connection of this pheno- 263 BE GEOG JOURNEY TO THE EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS OF THE NEW CONTINENT. BOOK V. CHAPTER XIV. Earthquakes at Caraccas.-Connection of this phenomenon with the volcanic eruptions of the West India islands. We left Caraccas on the 7th of February, in the cool of the evening, and began our journey to the Oroonoko. The remembrance of that departure is more painful to us now, than it was some years ago. Our friends have perished in the sanguinary revolutions, which have successively given liberty to those distant regions, and deprived them of it. The house which we inhabited is now a heap of ruins. Tremendous earthquakes have changed the surface of the soil. The city, which I have described, has dis |