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source of energfy, would suffice for all man's present 

 needs. 



Of course, the coming- of a time when water-power 

 and sunshine will be the force-gfiving", and hence wealth 

 producing" conditions, will work many chang-es among* 

 the nations and the advice g-iven by some to such coun- 

 tries as -Eng-land, which can hope for but little under 

 these new conditions, to pay off their national debts 

 and so relieve posterity from all possible burdens, is 

 not without just foundation. 



The outlook is, therefore, not so bad as it seems at 

 first sight and we may g-et along- very comfortably, 

 long- after our supplies of natural g-as, petroleum, and 

 coal have been exhausted. Still economy should be 

 insisted upon and these grand g^ifts of nature not 

 squandered. 



SULPHUR FROM PYRITE IN NATURE'S 

 LABORATORY. 



COIvLlKR COBB. 



An interesting occurrence of native sulphur in York 

 county, South Carolina, came to my notice in connec- 

 tion with the work of the University Summer School 

 of Geolog-y, at King-'s Mountain, in the summer of 

 1893, and having- visited the place again with the class and 

 made a careful examination in 1894, I deem the occur- 

 rence well worthy of note and record. Sulphur crys- 

 tals have been described by G. H. Williams^' from the 



*Johns Hopkins Univ. Circular, No. 87, April, 1891. 



