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human bones, or the bones of brute animals. Possibly by 
examining more of the fragments of the rock which have 
old red sand stone of Werner, which, with superincumbent ridges of green 
stone tran. fc fondi ion from th bore at New-Haven to the 
sach 
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nt a8 + oO ct 1 ; ry Mas 
This sand stone region, which is more than one hundred and ten miles long, 
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ruins of granite, with no cement, but finer portions of the same blended with 
oxid of iron,) cannot but be considered as very interesting. 
were evidently those of a per d consid la imal—some of 
wi se ; there was a long cylindrical cavity, which appear- 
ed to have been occupied by an os humerus remaini the rock, with 
e of its condyles rtion of the sternum—of art which is ter- 
minated by the ensiform cartilag her bones were so completely encas- 
1 rock, that it not be Profe 
the possibility that they might be human bones, but did not consider the 
specimens as sufficiently distinct to form the basis of a certain conc § 
— is understood also to be the opinion of Professor Mitchell, of New- 
ork. 
4. Documents and Remarks respecting the Sea Serpent ; 
communicated by Professor Jacos BicrLow, of Boston. 
Mr. Sinuiman, 
Iv the year 1817, an unusual marine phenomenon excited 
notice in the harbour of Gloucester, Mass. bemg one 
which the mariners and fishermen of that place were unac- 
quainted. Its character and appearance have since been 
well known to the public under the name of the Sea Serpent. 
