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and one or two other places. I have this from gentlemen who have 
seen the veins and who are reliable witnesses. These veins are of 
veins, which undoubtedly will be opened in the mountains, will consti- 
tute an immense and profitable mining business for centuries. I have 
no fear that the gold, as many imagine, will all be dug out ina year 
or two. 
lll. Botany anp Zoo.oey. 
(Communicated for this Journal.)—About two months ago, one of my 
laborers, employed in excavating marl, brought to me the shell of a 
ower beds, as to make the marl very compact an he over- 
lying earth (sand, gravel, and clay) there had been six feet thick. The 
calcareous marl i t feet; and this lies on green-sand earth, of 
great depth, and containing very little shelly or calcareous matter. 
s in my long experience in the excavation of marl, and much more 
Possible object for the negro to attempt a deception. And even if there 
had been sucha design, he could not have provided such means as he 
here produced, in an unknown if not a unique fossil specimen, in a 
remarkably good state of preservation. ‘This is the principal and all- 
Sufficient evidence of the good faith of the laborer. e could not pos- 
sibly have been himself deceived. He had been for years accustomed 
hollow impression of the nut in the lump of marl, which would have 
been conclusive evidence of the locality of the relic. 
When brought to me, the nut had been washed very nearly clean of 
all the adhering marl. The distension by moisture was very great, (as 
was learned afterwards by the great shrinking,) and consequently the 
