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* long. 156° 10’ E., was the ies elevation , having its sum- 
at. 23° 55’ N., long. 158° eas ‘rom its su mumit, for a 
rags 5° 
N., long. 153° 01' was a fifth mountain, extending to the surface 
in “sr island known as Marcus Island. A cast was taken in lat. 
24° 20’ N., long. 154° 06’ E., a distance of about seven miles from 
this bud to the northward: 1,500 fathoms of water were found 
For 176 miles from the last ae the bottom was, compara- 
tively speaking, regular; then the next 180 miles w as occupied by 
the sixth mountain 1 ridge, its easter base in lat. 25° 11’ N., mi g. 
149° 46’ E. ; its western in lat. 26° 09’ N., long. 146° 10 E., a 
its summit in lat. 25° 42’ N. ga 148 39" E Its height w was 
tance of the = was about that. fee the slopes computed are 
the minimum.— NV. Y. Tribune, Jun 
5. Meeting of the American Beotiatton at Hartford.—The 
twenty-third meeting of the American Association, at Hartford, 
commenced on bthinne vi: the 12th of August, and closed on the 
fllowing Wednesday. John L. LeConte, of Philadelphia, 
was the President of the groom and Professor C. S. Lyman, of 
u 
ries, opposite Middletown, where, in the bottom of one q — 
nty-one consecutive tracks oa the huge oodii, a : g 
a line over Sty Jeet Bie Bes re é ving been rooms ly 
Opened to n Thr mae the day afer the close of the 
session, ig rail, to Balaleary, a region of extensive limonite exca- 
