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we higher, the highest of the mountain. We crawled back al ong the 
arp escarpment, and in a few minutes stood erect on the highest pinna- 
cle. lis we found to be 17,640 feet high, the thermometer standing at 
180°, about 40 feet below thie summit, ‘whet the water boiled—giving 
32 degrees of depression, ‘This estimate makes Mount Hood higher 
America, 
The view from the summit was magnificent. From south to north 
that pane are Mounts ead 8, Baker, peeks and the Three 
Sisters; making, with a. ‘Hood, eight snowy peaks, Eastward the 
Blue Mountains are in view, and lying between us and them are the 
broad plains watered by the Deschutes, John Day’s, and Umatilla rivers. 
On the west the piny crests of the coast range cut clear against the sky, 
with the Willamette valley sleeping in quiet beauty lying at their feet. 
The broad silver rt of the Columbia winds through the evergreen val- 
ley toward the ocean. Within these limits is s every variety of mountain 
and valley, lake ra prairie, bold beetling precipices and graceful rounded 
summits blending and me ting away into each other. t was with relue- 
The descent to the great crevasse, though purl more realy accom- 
plished, was quite as perilous as the ascent from it. We were now ap- 
eriagg the gorge, and a mis-step might oresigans us into unfathomed 
Less than half an hour was sufficient to retrace the weary 
retest of two hours, and "wale for a moment on the upper edge of 
the chasm, I bounded over it where it was 8 feet wide. The impetus of 
3. Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in January, 1867. —~ 
At the meeting of the National auadols my held in the capitol at Wash- 
ington in January last, commencing with the 23d of the month, the fol- 
lowing papers were presen 
(1.) Report on the sAiekeGs action from the association of zine and 
iron by a Commirree or THE ACADEMY. 
2.) Report on the dutetionsion yah means of Ai ta Greytown 
Harbor, Nicaragua, by a ComMitTEE OF 
3.) Report on proving vay pana spirits net to duties, by a 
ComMITTEE OF THE 
4.) On some of the phenomena yen by the planet Venus when 
near to her inferior conjunction, by S. ALEXANDER, 
5.) On the longitude between Europe and America and the velocity 
ahs 7. 
On the principles of the classification of fishes, by L. Acassu, 
7.) Recent observations on the Glacial Phenomena of the Basin of 
the Great a . NEWBERRY. 
Pastel dtisleisn’ sanbitiaenaap rof. H. D. Rogert—At a 
meeting of tl the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last 
the scientific library and the collection of geological specimens of the 
* pap egal Hen ry D. Rogers of the University of Glasgow, were pemented 
to the Insti 
