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sunk and was drowned. As they were at one time standing on the very 

 tree beneath which he was concealed, Brady, understanding their language , 

 was very glad to hear the result of their deliberations ; and, after they had 

 gone, weary, lame* and hungry, he made good his retreat to his own home. 

 His followers, also, all returned in safety. The chasm across which he 

 leaped is in sight of the bridge where we crossed the Cuyahoga, and is 

 known in all that region by the name of * Brady's Leap. 1 ** 



Trapping a beaver and shooting an Indian are spoken of 

 with equal nonchalance, and referred to as matters of equally 

 commonplace occurrence. A narrative of Lewis Wetzel, 

 another hero whose fame arose from his skill in butchering 

 the Indians, is thus concluded : — 



" Like honest Joshua Fleeheart, after the peace of 1795, Wetzel pushed 

 for the frontiers on the Mississippi, where he could trap the beaver, hunt 

 the buffalo and the deer, and occasionally shoot an Indian, the object of 

 his mortal hatred. He finally died, as he had always lived, a free man of 

 the forest" 



Among various other subjects which we find treated 

 of in the course of these extracts, are some rather curious 

 geological notices, in which two or three original and very 

 expressive terms are introduced. "Semi-tertiary deposits" 

 are those which are neither tertiary nor diluvial, but partake 

 of the character of both these formations, being composed of 

 clay, intermixed with boulders of primitive rocks, pebbles, 

 and gravel. Semi-diluvial, we apprehend, would have con- 

 veyed the author's meaning more faithfully; or, in these 

 anti-diluvial times, semi-drift would, perhaps, be a still more 

 appropriate substitution. The following description of an 

 organised stratum, which is to be called Belemnita-Madrepora, 

 ought to have been omitted altogether, or at any rate should 

 not have been inserted without some editorial comment. This 

 stratum is stated to form the lowest bed of a section of rock 

 strata exhibited at Yellow Creek, a southern branch of the 

 Mahoning : — *j 



"A stratum of an apparently crystalline calcareous fossil, shooting into 

 pyramidal masses, closely compacted; about 4 in. in thickness. Specific 

 character. Shape, conical ; surface marked by numerous undulating circular 

 striae; colour, light slate; from 2 in. to 4 in. in length, and from a in. to 

 1 in. in diameter at the base. I can describe the form and structure no 

 better, than by saying they resemble a mass of conical 'candle extin- 

 guishers,' one placed within the other, and so arranged as to make a 

 compact bed, 4 in. thick, and extending over an indefinite space. The 

 thickness of the sides of the cones varies according to size, from an eighth 

 to a twelfth of an inch. The form resembles some of the species of 

 Belemnites, more than any other fossil. Its geological, position, according 

 to Blainville, is favourable to this supposition, being near the tertiary, or 

 recent secondary, deposits. Its composition is calcareous, effervescing 

 strongly with dilute sulphuric acid, when pulverised and mixed with it. 

 It is not a deposit, but a regularly organised substance, like coral, or 



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