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FROM JOHN E. STEARNS, OF CASTLETON, RENSSELAER CO. 



A Bill of the continental currency for sixty dollars, issued "according 

 to a resolution of Congress of the 14th January, 1779." 



FROM PROFESSOR DAVID DALE OWEN. 

 A plaster cast of the impressions of Two Human Foot-peints, takea 



from the rocks on the banks of the Mississippi, at the city of St. Louis. 



This cast was received from Professor Owen several years 

 since; but from inadvertence, the donation has not been hereto- 

 fore acknowledged. 



The annexed woodcut ( reduced in size from Professor Owen's 

 drawing) J will give a correct idea of the appearance of these 

 foot-prints. 



The deep interest manifested by the public, when the dis- 

 covery was first announced; the conflicting views of various 

 authors as to the true cause of their origin; and the doubt that 

 still exists in many minds, have induced us to make the follow- 

 ing extracts from an able paper (" Regarding Human Foot-prints 

 in solid limestone"), which originally appeared in Silliman's 



