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been found on Samish bay, and Mr. H. A. Goldsborough saw it u 
the Stoluckwamish in workable seams, but not accessible to water ees 
portation, The coal at Bellingham bay, must be lightered on board of 
move’ the water being shallo wt a copsidenpble distance from the 
hartiany, se the coal as no —— ng to the true coal, 
D’Wamish and Bellingham bay mines, was abandoned only from its not 
wet accessible to tide-water.” 
eport of Exploration of a Route for the Pacific Deiieanis near 
She. eaih and 39th Par allels of Latitude “th the Cee of the Kansas 
to Sevier River in the Great Basin ; by Lieut. E. G. Bec ee Third 
Artillery. Also Report, by the same, of pater on the line of 
the 41st Parallel of North Latitude, 1854,—Both reports contain much 
important information concerning the geography and productions of the 
routes a 
port of a Reconnoissance and Survey in’ California, in connec- 
tion au. aa aloeiies for a Practicable Railway route from the Mis- 
Sissippi river to the Pacific Ocean, in 1853 ; by pistie R. : WILLIAMSON, 
U.S. A., Corps of Topographical Enginee 80 pp., 8vo.—Lieut. 
Williamson’s Report includes the Geological beta of W. zB, Bla ke, no- 
ticed in o preceding volume of this Journal, 33. ‘ 
12. Report of Exploration of x Route for the ‘Pacific Railroad, near 
the 32d samailal of latitude from the Red River to the Rio Grande 3 ; by 
oe Captain Joun Pore, eas of ‘Topographical Engineers. H. 
129.—Besides the general account of the country wsyiabe the 
volume contains a short Geological Report by Jutes Marcov, an at- 
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alogue of the Plants, by Dr. Joun Torsey, with descriptions we a few 
new species. The evidence of Jurassic rocks on the Rocky moun- 
tains which Mr. Marcou presents is wholly unsatisfactory. Cretaceous 
eds were found as far as the ‘ upper cross Timbers” in longitude 
97° 30’ oot latitude 33° 40’. 
rt of Explorations for a Railway Route near the 35th Par- 
allel of labs from the Mississippi river to the Pacifes Onenes 2 
Lieut. A. W, Wuiprte, Corps of pee Fo i: 
» A., Cor oO ngineers. 
Tuezon eens Engine meteorites ate saber have been described 
in this Journal by Prof. Shepard and Dr. J. Lawrence Smith. The Re- 
“port contains information on the region passed over with a table of cal- 
culated Barometrical heights. 
