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stream, only two miles south of the place where the bones were 

 found. At this embankment, the sand is rolled up .into still higher 

 elevations than those already mentioned. Whenever the animal 

 died, its bones seem to have been buried by that rushing of the wa- 

 ters, which accumulated these masses of sand, and left them as the 

 miniature resemblance of the rolling waves of the mighty deep. 

 Rochester, N. Y., April 6th, 1837. 



5. Interlocking of Beech Trees. — On the farm of Col. Geo. War- 

 ner in the southwest part of Stockbridge, Mass., is the following cu- 

 rious interlocking of two trees of the common beech, fagus ferrugi- 

 nea. They grew on the side of a hill near the bank of the Housa- 

 tonic River, where the passage of the river around and through the 

 north part of Monument Mt. presents very beautiful scenery. The 

 right hand tree. A, as you stand facing the north, is nine and a half 

 inches diameter at the base, while the left hand tree, B, which stood 

 at the distance of eighteen inches from it and a little lower down the 

 hill, is four and a half inches in diameter and shows forty-four con- 

 centric layers. The limbs of the trees are peculiarly zigzag or tor- 

 tuous. At the height of ten feet from the ground, a limb from B 

 has become so entangled in the limbs of A, that the body of A has 

 grown entirely over the limb and so perfectly inclosed it that the limb 

 appears to grow directly through it. The tree A is here five and a 

 half inches in diameter, and the limb passes through it nearly in the 

 middle from the center to the outside. The limb from B is two feet 

 long to A, and one inch and a half in diameter where it enters A, 

 but it is only one inch in diameter were it issues and then extends 

 ten feet. The limb starts from B, about eleven feet from the 

 ground. In the winter of 1836, the tree B was cut off for wood ; 

 but the farmer, finding it strongly entangled in the other tree and 

 the weather being very cold, left it without ascertaining the rea- 

 son of its being held so firmly by A. In the summer he saw that the 

 tree, though cut off and having turned round from the weight above 

 so as to have its lower end about three feet from the ground, was 

 flourishing with rich foliage ; he ascertained the singular union of the 

 two trees, and called the attention of the curious to the fact. When 

 I saw the trees in September last, they were covered with large, full, 

 bright leaves, the one equally with the other so far as the eye could 

 ascertain from laying the leaves side by side. The trunk of B, which 

 was cut off, had healed over at the lower extremity so as to be green 



