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138 Journey to the Céteau des Prairies, &c. 
experiments on the effects of weights acting for an indefinite 
time on bars of iron.—Mr. Scott Russell made a report on the 
proceedings of the Committee appointed to inquire into the best 
form for vessels, and explained the nature of the experiments in 
progress.—Mr. Cottam described a new railway wheel, made 
wholly of wrought iron, so welded together, that independent of 
screws, rivets, or other kind of fastening, they form one piece with 
the spokes.—Mr. Jeffries read a paper on warming and ventilating, 
and gave a description of a pneumatic stove.—Mr. Gossage com- 
municated an account of a new rotatory steam engine.—Mr. Player 
made a communication on the application of anthracite coal to 
the blast furnace, steam engine boiler and smith’s fire, at the 
Gwendraeth Ironworks near Carmarthen.—Mr. Davies gave 4 
description of a machine for cutting the teeth of bevel wheels.— 
Mr. Dredge offered some remarks on bridge architecture.—A new 
secret lock without a key, by Mr. Benge, was then exhibited; 
and also a model, sent by Mr. Hamilton of Edinburgh, of 4 
method by which the resistance caused by the pressure of the. 
wind against the valves of the organ can be overcome, thereby 
permitting the largest pipes to be played by the fingers with fe 
cility, and also rendering the movement of the pedal keys and 
valves more smooth. 
The amount of moneys granted at this a for the prose- 
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ceution of scientific inquiries was £2789 1 
Arr. XV.—Account of a Journey to the Céteau des Prairies, 
with a description of the Red Pipe Stone quarry and Granite 
_ bowlders found there; by Mr. Grorer Carin, in a letler 0 
Dr. Charles T. Rican 
Read in the Boston Society of Natural ar eshe Peek 4, 1839, and communicated 
for this Journ 
Dear Sir—In the summer of 1835, whilst visiting the tribes of © 
Indians on the Upper Mississippi, I spent some months at and in 
the vicinity of the Falls of St. Anthony. Whilst there, I resolved _ 
to pay a visit to the “ Red Pipe Stone quarry,” (as it is called, jon 
the “ Céteau des Prairies,” the place where the Indians procure — 
the stone for their red pipes; of which place I had already learned 
many very curious and inte: 
interesting traditions from the Upper ie é 
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