Miscellanies. — 379. 
stream, only two miles south of the place where the bones were 
founds, At this embankment, the sand is rolled up into still higher 
elevations than those already mentioned. Whenever the animal 
died, its bones seem to have been buried by that rushing of the wa- 
ters, which accumulated these masses of sand, and left them as the 
miniature resemblance of the rolling waves of the mighty deep. 
Rochester, N. Y., April 6th, 1837. 
5. Interlocking of Beech Trees.—On the farm of Col. Geo. War-. 
ner in the southwest part of Stockbridge, Mass., is the following cu- 
rious interlocking of two trees of the common beech, fagus ferrugi- 
nea. ‘They grew on the side of a hill near the bank of the Housa- 
tonic River, where the passage of the river around and through the 
north part of Monument Mt. presents very beautiful scenery. The 
right hand tree, 2, as you stand facing the north, is nine and a half 
inches diameter at the base, while the left hand tree, B, which stood 
at the distance of eighteen inches from it and a little lower down the 
hill, is four and a half inches in diameter and shows forty-four con- 
centric layers. .The limbs of the trees are peculiarly zigzag or tor- 
tuous. At the height of ten feet from the ground, a limb from B 
has become so entangled in the limbs of 4, that the body of 4 has 
grown entirely over the limb and so perfectly inclosed it that the limb 
appears to grow directly through it. The tree 4 is here five and a 
half inches in diameter, and the limb passes through it nearly in the 
middle from the center to the outside. The limb from B is two feet 
long to .4, and one inch and a half in diameter where it enters 4, 
but it is only one inch in diameter were it issues and then extends 
ten feet. The limb starts from B, about eleven feet from the 
ground. In the winter of 1836, the tree B was cut off for wood ; 
but the farmer, finding it strongly entangled in the other tree and 
the weather being very cold, left it without ascertaining the rea- 
son of its being held so firmly by 2. In the sammer he saw that the 
tree, though cut off and having turned round from the weight above 
so as to have its lower end about three feet from the ground, was 
flourishing with rich foliage; he ascertained the singular union of the 
two trees, and called the attention of the curious to the fact. When 
I saw the trees in September last, they were covered with large, full, 
bright leaves, the one equally with the other so far as the eye could 
ascertain from laying the leaves side by side. The trunk of B, which 
was cut off, had healed over at the lower extremity so as to be green 
