Miscellanies! 389 
= > 7 e 3.3. ” sailie 
lake Gardon, which washes its base. Iss épasiog oman sree 
metres high, which is prolonged in a vestibule netres wide. 
This communicates with several galleries, the two ye dnineat of which, 
situated one above the other, grow narrower as we advance.» ‘The 
lower one, at about fifteen metres from the vestibule, has a floor of 
stalagmite, under which is found, in the midst of a bed of mud, like 
tat of the bed of the lake, human bones, fragments of earthen ware, 
some of which are extremely coarse, and bones of ruminating ani= 
mals belonging to existing species. In some of the recesses are 
found, mixed pell mell with the same remains, fragments of bones of 
extinct species, but that this mud is of a recent period, is proved by 
the fact, that in the same spots in which the antediluvian bones are 
found, are also found human bones, which might also have been re- 
garded as antediluvian but for a little bronze statue found —e 
mn, evidently of Roman fabrication.—Rev. Encyc. Juin, gure 
_ - Pref sittelcock's a he ont the Geology - Masenchusettenis 
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ns, and who censure the continental governments, for devo=" 
ting the public funds to such purposes, will probably be surprised to” 
see one of the states of New England, executing at its own expense, 
=“ a work as that of Prof. Hitchcock ; and that a single glance at’ 
this report, is sufficient to convince any one of the utility of such a 
work, to the state which has undertaken it; and to regret that there’ 
isso very small a part of the French territory, whose geological consti-: 
tution is as well known to the public, as is now the state of Massachu= 
setts. France has the greater cause to regret her being distaneed im 
this race by America, from her having @ corps of mining engineers, 
who if they had the means, would, in a very short time furnish a work 
of the same kind, still more complete, of each of the depa ; 
~The same Journal, in remarking on the Geology of Nova Scidia 
&e., by T. Jackson and F. Alger, adverts to the agreeable surprise, 
which | experienced, on debarking at Cumana, on 
in the Spanish Governor of that province, a man who was capahlardl 
sustaining a ‘scientific conversation; and t to his observation, that the 
distant land, cannot give 
- pte thé ear of one who has boar long absent from it, 
