1881).] -'-L-L [Jones. 



cal inventious of later and more intellectual ages, when the victory of truth 

 over error replaced that of day over night in the language of the initiated. 

 We must come down to the classic age of the XIX dynast}' before this 

 sjiiritualizing process of tlie poets of the priesthood becomes well authenti- 

 cated. 



The connection of Ormuzd, Horus and the Shemitic aur, light, is evi- 

 dent ; but the relationships of lux, fax, and ox (oculus, u.j<^<) and of lux with 

 peiv, mere, and oCfax with la/.yjtq will also repay an effort at develop- 

 ment. 



The Pre^^ideiit reported that he had received a letter from 

 Drexel, Harjes & Co., of Paris, advising that the sheet allowed 

 for the receipts of interest on the 3 per cent. French Rentes, 

 belonging to the Michaux Legacy had been filled np. The 

 rules of the French Treasury require that a new sheet and 

 inscription shall be made in the name of the Society. They 

 forwarded the proper petition to the Minister of Finance for 

 that purpose which has been duly signed by the President 

 and Treasurer in the presence of the French Vice-Consul at 

 Philadelphia, and the same duly and officially certified by 

 him as required by the laws of France, and such petition 

 has been sent to Messrs. Drexel, Harjes & Co., at Paris. 



And the meeting was adjourned. 



Notes on the Cumierland or Potomac Coal Basin. By Howard Gra?it 



Jones, M. S. 



{Read before the American Philoso'phical Society, September 17, 1880.) 



This field is a long triangular territory of about sixty miles in length, 

 lying along the outside or eastern edge of the great Alleghany uplift, and 

 is situated in Somerset county of Pennsylvania, Alleghany county, Mary- 

 land, and Mineral county, West Virginia. Although considered a spur, 

 the basin is rather an overlapping of the Coal strata to the eastward ot the 

 Alleghaniau fold which demarcates the celebrated Coal fields of those 

 States. It is with Broad Top and an unexplored basin in Alleghany county 

 (New River) the only deposits bej-ond this line. On leaving Pennsyl- 

 vania this persistent anticlinal becomes " Savage Mountains," which bend 

 south west towards a geological center at Union, in Maryland, where are 

 pinned together the southern extremities of the several basins of Marjiand 

 and Pennsylvania lying parallel to the AUeghanies. The Coal strata here 

 flow over Savage mountain into the Potomac basin, virtually terminating 

 this range in the general elevation. The name and bold characteristics of 



