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pers, might possibly be the result of abrasion or denudation. This 
threw the difficulty only one step further back; besides this, that the 
appearance of the forest is at variance with the theory. No agates or 
gravel appeared around; the trees seemed to have been petrified as 
they lay; they looked ‘like a forest felled by mighty winds.’ A fur- 
ther mystery was this: they lay on the surface of bare drift sand and 
gravel, and reposing on limestone rocks of the most recent tertiary for- 
mation—the texture and color of the imbedded oyster shells were as 
fresh and pure as if brought not six weeks from the sea.” 
3. Cuchullin Hills in Skye.-—The Cuchullin Hills are described by 
Prof. Forses, (Jameson’s Jour., Jan. 1846, p. '76,) as consisting largely 
of hypersthene rock, which forms a vast bed, and passes insensibly into 
one or other of the varieties of trap rocks; and this rock is intersected 
by numerous veins of claystone, of a dull gray color. The smoothing 
or planing of the rocks in some places, and the regular furrowings, par- 
allel and strongly marked, which occur on some high vertical cliffs, and 
rise against opposing promontories, or channel the trough of the valley, 
are described as very similar to what he had before shown to be a ne- 
cessary result of glacier action : and to this cause, Prof. Forbes is dis- 
posed to referthem. The Cuchullin range is remarkable for its fantas- 
tic outline, and is compared to the granite mountains of Dauphiné ; and 
“one part in particular resembles the Montagne de la Grave, aptly 
likened by M. Elie de Beaumont, toa gigantic nut-cracker, menacing 
heaven with its open jaws.” 
4. Gradual rise of Newfoundland above the sea. (Jameson’s Jour. 
Jan. 1846, p. 206.)—It is a fact worthy of notice, that the whole of the 
land in and about the neighborhood of Conception Bay, very probably 
the whole island, is rising out of the ocean at a rate which promises, at 
no very distant day, materially to affect, if not to render useless, many 
of the best harbors we have now on the coast. At Port-de-Grave a 
series of observations have been made, which undeniably prove the 
rapid displacement of the sea-level in the vicinity. Several large flat 
rocks, over which schooners might pass some thirty or forty years ago 
with the greatest facility, are now approaching the surface, the water 
being scarcely navigable for a skiff. Ata place called the Cosh, at the 
head of Bay Roberts, upwards of a mile from the sea-shore, and at sev- 
eral feet above its level, covered with five or six feet of vegetable mould, 
there is a perfect beach, the stones being rounded, of a moderate size, 
and in all respects similar to those now found in the adjacent land- 
washes.—(From the Newfoundland Times.) 
5. Cataract Cave, Schoharie, (from a published account, communica- 
ted by A. Ecateston.)—The Cataract cave was first opened about two 
years since, by a young man of the name of Howe. ‘The opening when 
