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5. Heights of Mountains in Western Conneeticut.—The fol- 
lowing is a list of some of the mountain elevations of Western 
Connecticut, as obtained by a survey made two or three years ago 
Wins Ry ler and Civil Engineer George M. Bradford, ‘ot 
V insted re he Hon. Robbins Battell and H. P. Lawrence, of 
ik. It will be seen that Aalbers, the northwest corner 
esc has pnd ape oe much higher than — of Mt. Ivy in 
Spaulding’s Sain t, Norfolk 1,336 ea 
Platt oral peage ices ester 1,460 ‘ 
Chamberlain Mountain, Winchester. _......--.- 1480 *, 
Mountain, Goshen ie = 
Ri Mountain, Norfolk 1-566 ** 
Knapp Mountain, Norfolk 1617) 
Moses Mountain, 1 1,645“ 
Dutton. Moyntain, Norfolk ........-<.2. 2.2... BB i? Ri 
Summer Mountain, Norfolk .........-.-.----- 1.612. ° 
Hays untain, Norfolk pois. 
Gaylord Mountain, Norfolk LTT 
Bal ountain, lk 1780 24 
ow Mountain, Norfolk 1p TO. 
Mt. Bradford, Canaan 1,960 “ 
lipper Mountain, Canaan 1 5 
Bald Peak, Salisbury igge 
Buck Mountain, Salisbury 2.160 #4 
Bear Mountain, Salisbury 2,250 
Mount Bras Agi ie oe ea 2,300 “ 
“'The last a heights are estimated.” The report of the sur- 
vey says: Mount Brace and Bear are 150 to 200 feet higher than 
the ground chew stood on, [Bald Peak, Salisbury], and unques- 
tionably in the limits of this State,—w ‘hile there is some dispute 
as to whether the highest point of Mount Brace, which is con- 
siderably above the other two, is in this State, or just over the 
line in New Yor e bey nument to mark the State line is on 
is mountain near the top, and it is exceedingly probable that 
the highest land in the "Stare j is exactly in the corner where New 
ork and Massachusetts join Odnneenént Only this seems now 
certain, that there is land in this State that will vary little, if any, 
from 2 300 feet above the sea-level.—Hartford Times, June 
1877. This high land is in the Taconic range and just south of 
Mount Mfc gton 
6. On some of’ the conditions ingluencing the projection of dis- 
crete os naeerkale From Volcanoes, and on the mode in which 
Pee was Meee igo oTgchige we Mallett Sires has an ant 
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_ 1. The Geo ah feeder eae of Portugal. — The recent publica- 
Casareda containing human remains, by J. LN.D elgado; on the 
