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chlorine and the other ammoniacal gas, be brought in con- 
tact, a flash of light pervades the interior. Professor Silliman 
has also stated that a large volume of ammoniacal gas may be 
ignited and continue to burn; and Dr. Henry has adverted to 
a phzenomenon of the same description: indeed, the foreign 
flame exhibited when a lighted taper is introduced into a small 
cylinder of this gas, sufficiently proves that the gas is inflam- 
mable in atmospheric air. I find, however, that if a slip of 
paper be dipped in strong liquid ammonia, and immersed into 
a cylinder of newly prepared chlorine, it will burn with a beau- 
tiful flame, and the liquid ammonia will also burn with flame 
when introduced in the deflagrating spoon, 
FOSSIL REMAINS. 
Notwithstanding the confused and unscientific manner in 
which this account is drawn up, we think there is reason to 
believe that some interesting fossil remains have been found ; 
and not wishing to assume any responsibility for the correct- 
ness of the notice, we give it as originally published. It is to 
be hoped that a more satisfactory description of these remains 
will soon be received. 
_ Oar enterprising fellow-citizen, Mr. Samuel Schofield, has 
disinterred from the low prairie grounds between Placquemine 
and the lakes, a number of remains of the most gigantic size. 
They evidently belong to some class of animals now no longer 
in existence; whether antediluvian or not, we are unable to 
say. The great Elephas mastodon, or American Mammoth, 
described by Dr. Mitchill, is inferior in size to these bones we 
have seen. From the circumstance of ambergris being col- 
lected in some quantity from the inferior surface of the maxil- 
lary bone, we are led to the conclusion that they are of marine 
origin, but of what description we are unable to conjecture. 
Upon examining these remains, we are easily led to give cre- 
dit to the extraordinary relations given by Father Kircher, of 
the Kraken and Norway sea snake. ‘This nondescript, when 
alive, must have equalled either of them in bulk. 
We will attempt a faint description of those which have al- 
ready been brought up to this city, and are now on board the 
steam-boat, Expedition. They consist, first, of an enormous 
fragment of acranium. It is about twenty-two feet in length, 
and its broadest part four feet high, and perhaps nine inches 
thick. It is said to weigh about twelve hundred pounds. On 
the interior surface the vitreous table appears to be separated 
from the cancelli for some way down; this table is perfectly 
2 Eo firm, 
