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The “ oil-men,” although discouraged, are not without hope; they 
think that, as in Pennsylvania, an increased supply of Petroleum 
will be found, by sinking wells to a greater depth ; and accordingly, 
they are making arrangements, if they have not already commenced, 
to sink a test well, to the great depth of one thousand feet under 
the surface. 
I was informed, that although only about 150,000 barrels of Pe- 
troleum have been shipped, a total quantity of 300,000 barrels must 
have been discharged, up to this date, from all the wells ; about 
half of the total yield having been allowed to run to waste. To give 
some idea of the capacity of the hidden reservoirs in which the 
Petroleum has been stored, I may mention that 300,000 barrels are 
equal to nearly 2,000,000 cubic feet ; and that if brought into one 
place, the crude oil discharged from the wells of Enniskillen would 
be sufficient to cover an area of five acres of land to a depth of ten 
feet 1. 
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INTRODUCTORY LECTURE OF A COURSE ON REMOTE 
ANTIQUITY. 
Delivered at the Academy of Lausanne in Nov. and Dec., 1860. 
BY A. MORLOT. 
[The following Lecture has heen selected for translation, not so much on 
account of its intrinsic merit as for the interest of the subject therein discussed, 
and as an admirable specimen of the foreign style of investigation. In a work 
recently published by one of the editors of this Jowrnal, (“ Pre-historic Man”), 
the reader will find the same subject treated with greater elaboration, and with 
‘due regard to an authority which the continental savan is too often content to 
ignore, For the translation itself, at once faithful and spirited, the Journal ig 
indebted to the pen of a lady.—Ep.] 
To infer from the known to the unknown, from what we see to 
what we do not see, is the practice of the whole world. The Arab 
of the desert when he sees at a great distance an eagle soaring in the 
air, in a peculiar manner, exclaims: ‘‘a lion.” He knows that 
this eagle is waiting for the moment to pounce in his turn on the 
prey that a lion will soon leave. 
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