EVAPORATION. M. Lainairesse mentions that the engineers in the Madras Presidency allow for a loss of water iu irrigation by- evapora tion, of 3 inches daily per square yard of land irrigated. In the Red tank, near Madras, in the five months April to August the writer went down 75 inches, in spite of 8 inches of rain, in all 83 incites. Of that, 53 inches were lost by evaporation, and 30 inches used in irrigation. In the years 1864-65, in the sante months, at Pondi cherry, the matt daily evaporation was 0.329 inch ; at litsi Hill tauk, Madras, in the tank, 0'374, and in the open, 0.469. The depth of the waters, the prevalence of dry winds, and the degree of tree shelter for the waters, exercise great influence over the rates of evaporation. It is a subject of great itnportance to India and all tropical countries, but has not been worked out. In his annual report of the Bombay Geographical Society, from May 1849 to Aug-ust 1850, ix., Dr. Buist, on the authority of Mr. Laidly, stated the evaporation at Calcutta to be about 15 feet annually ; that between the Cape and Calcutta it averages, in October and November, nearly i- of an inch daily ; between 10° and 20° in the Bay of Bengal, it was found to exceed an inch daily. Supposing this to be double the average througb out the year, we should have 18 feet of evapora tion annually.—Beng. Ph. ; Maury's Ph. Geog.
EVE, the mother of the human race, is re cognised under different names in all cosmo gonies. The Eve of Mosaic history became the Astarte of the Assyrians ; Isus nursing Horns of the Egyptians ; the Demeter and the Aphrodite of the Greeks ; the Scythian Friya and Bakis, The Eve of Genesis is the Hawa or Havvah of the Arab and Mahomedans generally ; Baltis, in Byblius called Beuth or Behuth, i.e. void of genesis, is identical with space, and means the mother's womb, the primeval mother,—the funda mental idea being the mother or source of life, which is the meaning of Havvah, the Eve of Genesis. The tomb of Eve is pointed out in several places. On the east, Mecca is bounded by a hill called Abu-Kubays, and, according to many Mnhomedans Adam with his wife and son Seth lie buried there. At less than a mile from the Medina gate of Jedda, a tomb, said to be that of our common mother Eve, is surmounted by a cupola and surrounded by walls enclosing a pretty cemetery, in which many of her children lie around her.—Bunsen's Egypt ; Hamilton, Sinai, 66.