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148 Miscellaneous Intelligence. . 
labors ; and eminently to Lieut. Gilliss, who has carried forward his 
duties with ability and zeal. The Astronomical portion of the work 
yet to be published. 
We have room at this time only for a single citation, from Volu 
Antuco.—An hour’s ride brought them to a rough granite ri 
some three hundred feet high, from the top of which the view 
magnificent: in front, Antuco, black and desolate; to the southward, 
Sierra Belluda, a lofty, rugged, and Alpine pile, white with etefnal 
snows, down whose sides innumerable cascades dash headlong to the - 
valleys; to the north, a lower t = picturesque range of mountains ; 
and at their feet the river Laja, here a small but romantic stream foam- ~ 
ing through a deep g its volume augmented at short imerval by 
eyond i 
strawberries; and a little arther on, another fadbat 
they witnessed is glare, but heard no eae during the ni 
early on the following morning ascended a hill, from which there 
a better view than was sets from that to which the rain had 
nn th 
em. 
Antuco is a regular cone, with sides inclined at an angle of 4 
is covered wilh snow perpetually for about one-third of the d 
The last segues forme 
| craters, about two-thirds of the height of the mountain 
er 
w-peaked mountains, without a tree 
Bom its pre ll the lake seemed lifeless ; ind 
ed when they arrived. There 
ms ike molten — but no violent 
t noi esemblin 
a rough road, as if broken Siete 
a war for supeaeey in the bowels of 
