224 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



It contains an account of the plan of the survey, as initiated 

 by Lieutenant Wheeler in 1870, and which he has success- 

 fully continued during the year 1872. The work accom- 

 plished during 1871 embraces, among other results, the map- 

 ping out of various mining districts, and the determination 

 of the areas, direction, and condition of the lodes. The topo- 

 graphical features of the great Colorado plateau have been 

 developed over the region extending from St. George, in 

 Utah, to the White Mountains, near the border line of Ari- 

 zona and New Mexico, and much information has been gath- 

 ered as to the geology of this plateau, and of numerous in- 

 closed and interior basins in N^evada. The exploration of the 

 Colorado has determined the absolute limit beyond which a 

 party of examination will not be likely to ascend that river. 

 It has been ascertained that a railroad can cross the Colora- 

 do and the mouth of the Virgin River, that it can be carried 

 by easy grades, and that the Colorado can be crossed by a 

 north and south line near the foot of the Grand Canon ; and 

 also that this route may be made available for mails to the 

 northern part of Arizona. Report. 



THE OW^L-FACED MINEEVA. 



Dr. Schliemann, a savant at present engaged in exploring 

 what he supposed to be the site of ancient Troy, has written 

 to Professor North, of Hamilton College, according to the 

 College Courant^ in reference to the characters given by the 

 ancients to Minerva. He has reason to believe that up to a 

 certain period of history this goddess was actually repre- 

 sented with the face of an owl, but that with the advance of 

 civilization she received a human face, and her owl's head 

 was transformed into a separate bird. College Courant^Feh- 

 riiarg 8,1813. 



TRAVELS OF PALLADIUS IN CHINA. 



The Archimandrite Palladius, who lias already sent many 

 interesting facts relative to the geography and internal con- 

 dition of the Chinese Empire to the Geographical Society of 

 St. Petersburg, has lately forwarded to it a collection of an- 

 cient Chinese, Japanese, and Corean coins, as well as a coj^y 

 of an inscription of a tumular stone which he found near Tour- 

 dano, in the southern part of the Oussouri country. Some 



