228 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
of thousands of acres of farming, meadow and pasture lands have 
been submerged along the eastern and northern shores of the lake. 
Jany square miles of valuable lands as yet available and occu- 
pied by the farmer, skirting the lake, would be completely sub- 
merged should the waters rise but a few inches above the average 
level of the past five years. 
There is one fixed mark corroborative of the immense increase 
in the lake during the past decade. Prior to 1861, Black Rock 
was connected with the mainland by a roadway of black lime- 
stone, crushed and regularly turnpiked, as if by design. Over 
ported their saline products. That self-same roadway, yet plainly 
discernible, is now twelve feet under the surface of the Great 
Salt Lake. Essentially it is a submarine turnpike! 
i mere conjecture that the lowland farmers along the 
shores of the Great Salt Lake may some day find themselves in 
the predicament of the demure Hollander—compelled to resist, by 
earthworks, the encroachments of salt water, or submit to the re- 
tiring process of inundation.— Utah Mining Gazette, July 25. 
2 the Physical Cause of Ocean-Ourrents ; by JAMES 
Cro, of the Geological Survey of Scotland—lIn a lecture at the 
Royal Institution, and also in the Atheneum, Nature, Philosoph- 
ical Magazine, and other quarters, Dr. Carpenter has been advanc- 
ence to under-curre 8 this objection be 
which in my last communication I omitted to consider, perhaps 
you will permit me, through your columns, briefl r to it 
in thickness and 3600 miles in breadth, the temperature of — 
hallenger’ sound- 
more obvious,” 
The objection seems to me to be based upon a series of misap- 
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