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say worked with them, and as regards batteries and coils^he would find available- 

 for his purpose all that he could wish. No currents, "ihowever/^are'Jn. use which 

 would induce another current 2,000 or 3,000 miles away.g^Still it is within'possi- 

 bility that such may be found, and to a Dundonian must be^ascribed the honor 

 of having first conceived the scheme of transoceanic telegraphi^communication 

 without the aid of cables. — Dundee Advertiser. 



ARCHEOLOGY. 



AZTEC REMAINS IN LA PLATA COUNTY, COLO. 



• 

 At the Denver Exposition there were exhibited some Aztec remains from 



Farmington, La Plata County, Colo. ,^ of intense interest to the student.'' They 



were found in the ruins of a building several stories high, which had- been erected 



in the form of a terraced pyramid, near the mouth of the Animas River. 



Nearly all the bones of the human body were discovered in a good state of 

 preservation. Among them were three skulls, two of men and one of a woman. 

 The latter was also young, as the distinctness of the suture joints testify; one of 

 the male skulls was of a middle-aged person, and the other evidently of an old 

 man as the several parts had grown almost solid. All were very thick, show- 

 ing characteristics of the semi-barbaric races. The teeth remaining were most- 

 ly sound, though one showed marks of an ulceration, and there were several 

 empty sockets. 



Besides, there were some fine specimens of Aztec pottery of perfect color, 

 parchment, stone implements, etc., from the same vicinity. This section of Col- 

 orado has been as yet little explored, but enough has been found to demonstrate 

 that it is a region of great value to archeology. F. E. S. 



HUMAN FOOT-PRINTS FOUND IN SOLID ROCK. 



The Nevada State's Prison, at Carson, is situated on a sand-stone spur, 

 which runs out from the Pine Nut Mountains into the Carson. Plains, like a great 

 promontory. The prison' quarry has uncapped the spur to a depth of from thirty 

 to forty feet, and exposed a layer of arenaceous shale. In this shale, and cover- 

 ing a space of about an acre and a half, have been found a large number of 

 tracks, both of animals and birds, and what are supposed, also, to be human foot- 

 prints. Eight great square impressions, twenty by twenty-two inches in size, showing 

 stride of four and a half feet, come out from the super-incumbent rock. These- 

 have been supposed to be the tracks of a mastodon, or mammoth. Tracks of a 

 wading bird are also seen along with it. What is more remarkable, however, is 



