Geology. 477 
Kilauea has been very active for months, and vast changes have 
been made in the great pit. The overflowings hie : Poet been 
frequent and abundant; hills of lava have been heaped up in the 
ling” part of the crater, and the deep central Spas is fast 
oe 
Geology of Ohio.—The first part of the Final Report on 
the Gusees of Ohio, under the charge of Prof. J. 8. Newberry, 
is just now leaving the press. It constitutes the first half of the 
first volume, and treats of the Geology of the State, and will 
extend, as we learn from Dr. eet eh to 680 pages, and con- 
tain 25 maps and sections. Part II. of the same volume treats of 
the Paleontology, and will make acu 450 pages, and be illus- 
trated by 50 plates. This second part is promised by July Ist. 
The sheets of nearly the whole of Part I, and some of the fin- 
ished plates of the Paleontology, are now pokes us, and they show 
that Dr. Newberry, and his associates in the work, have —. 
the State under great obligations to them by their | abors ong 
the important questions in American geological history apparently 
settled by. the survey ia the fact that the “ Cincinnati uplift,” rais- 
ing the region from Lake Erie a into Tennessee, took 
place at the close of the Lower a We defer a further 
s and accompanying strata, t e Cincinnati axis its 
highest elevation before the de ion of the Upper Coal-meas- 
ures began; that therefore the Coal-measures of this region 
e capes contains many sections ensntine the relations of the 
— —- and higher coal beds, 
i thcoven of the wen, FES, Survey ¥; cue ay ad 
S., Director. 
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