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Orton, Prof. James. The Andes and the Amazon ; or, Across the 

 Continent of South America. Ed. 3, containing: Notes of a Second 

 Journey. Pp. 64.5, maps and illustrations. 12mo. New York, 



Contains many geological notes and disquisitions. 



Packard, A. S., Jun. On the supposed ancient outlet of Great Salt 



Lake. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv, Territories, ser. 2, no. 5, pp. 413, 



414. 



The outlet is Skull Valley (100 feet above the lake), thence to Sevier 



Lake Valley, from this either by the Colorado or into Dry Lake Basin 



(70 feet below sea level), and so to the Gulf of California or Bay of San 



Diego. W. H. D. 



. The Great Salt Lake in former Times. Ayner. Nat. vol. x. 



pp. 675-681. 

 Reviews the history of the lake during Post-tertiary times. 



Patterson, W. J. Brief Notes relating to the resources, industries, 

 &c. of Newfoundland. Montreal. 



Pinart, A. [Note on the Exploration of Shell-mounds N. of San 

 Francisco Bay.] Bull. Soc. Geogr. Paris, 6 ser. t. xi. p. 447. 



Piatt, Franklin. Report of Progress in the Clearfield and Jefferson 

 District of the Bituminous Coalfields of Western Pennsylvania. 

 Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Pp. viii, 296 ; 10 maps 

 and sections, 139 woodcuts. 8vo. Harrishurg. 



Powell, J. W. Report on the Geology of the Eastern Portion of the 

 Uinta Mountains and a Region of Country adjacent thereto. Pp. 

 vii, 218; 4 plates (view and sections). 4to. Washington. Largo 

 fol. atlas (maps, sections, and diagrams). 

 Chap. i. treats of the geographic characteristics and orographic 

 structure of the Jiasin, Plateau, and Park Provinces, with their types 

 of mountain structure, and their history in Cenozoic times. Chap. ii. 

 describes the sedimentary groups of the Plateau Province, with a 

 general section, and a notice of the localities where the several groups 

 can be studied. Chap, iii., see Invektebrate Palaeontology, under 

 C. A. White. Chap. iv. is on the geographic distribution of the for- 

 mations, with sections. Chap, v., Structural Geology, describes the dis- 

 placements, degradation with its methods, and sedimentation. W. W. 



Pratt, W. H. Report on a Geological Examination of the section 

 of the Bluffs recently exposed by the C, R. I. & P. R. R. Proc, 

 Bavenp. Ac. Nat. Sci. vol. i. pp. 96-99, pi. xxxii. 



Describes a series consisting of clay, peat, and boulder-drift. 



Prime, Fred., Jun. Report of Progress on the Brown Hematite Oro 

 Ranges of Lehigh County, with a Description of the Mines lying 

 between Emmaus, Alburtis, and Fogelsville. Second Geological 

 Survey of Pennsylvania. Pp. xii, 74 ; 8 plates and map. 8vo. 

 Harrishurg. 



