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and on approaching nearer we could hear the measured groan or 
grunt with which they accompany each stroke that they make, and 
when I was convinced that it did not indicate pain, as. its doleful 
sound led me to think, it became so ludicrous that [ burst out into a 
a quarter ; eh have been abandoned on account of the danger of 
working in the 
We finally sscended to the Pett outlet or that which was first exe- 
out which contained a large amount of human bones buried beneath 
the rock which had evidently caved in upon them where they had made 
their excavations too wide. Having got out into daylight once more, 
a us richly for our laborious ascent. ‘There was se out rig 
east. Twelve miles from us o the plain was the town of San Jose, 
a little to the left the town of Santa Clara, a dy Sacha on the vil- 
age of Alviso, and the Mission of San José the table land in the 
distance. This country is so rich and fertile Pv when its agricultural 
merits are fully developed and pera to bear, it will feed and main- 
tain all the population of Californ 
“. Infu usorta.—In the American Foatial of Science for March, 1845, 
mention is made of an infusorial earth supposed to have been brought 
from the Bermuda Islands. The history of the specimen there given 
is that it was received from M. Tu ey, Esq. of Petersburg, Va., 
the infusorial forms which it i... it is unparalled. The specim men 
is very white, friable and light, and consists almost pm of infusorial 
remains. Will not some naturalist near the Bermuda ired make 
@ reconnoisance of that place and report to the editors - this Journal, 
and if successful forward a box of specimens ? 
