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mains, and the depth of alluvial strata which have been deposited 
around their bases since they were constructed. 
Dr. J. B. Johnson observed that savage races were known to 
have used a portion of the skull as a drinking cup; but that bone, 
neither in a fresh state, nor when boiled in water, would bend, or 
yield, to much compression, without fracture. 
Dr. M. A. Pallen remarked bone, in some diseased condi- 
tions, became more or less pliable; but here was no evidence of 
such a condition, He concurred ii 
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Tt was also ordered, that the Paper -yealinadby Pek: A. Litton 
on Belcher’s Artesian Well, be daa in the pce ames ma 
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