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in the county, as well as rumors of rich deposits, etc.”* This 
sentence gives one some new light on classification and will per- 
haps obtain for the doubter pardon for his skepticism whether 
the new differentiation is to be so very thorough after all. 
When diabase dikes and rumors are classed together, there seems 
room for doubt as to the closeness of the classification. How- 
ever, all things are possible to one who can explain dolomite as 
formed in Sargasso seas and can settle the glacial problem in 
one short page. The proposed preliminary report will be 
eagerly awaited ; the Azennial is all too brief a pleasure. 
lefale 18. 
t Biennial Report of State Geologist, 1898, p. 36. 
