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geographical position gives her a comparatively mild and genial climate, 
intermediate between the extremes of heat and cold, while the rich virgin 
soil of her beautiful prairies is admirably adapted to the growth of all 
the great staple grain and root crops of the west. 
It is true that in some districts there is rather a deficiency of timber, 
but as a genefal thing there is along the streams sufficient for the imme- 
diate wants of the country. In addition to this, the wonderful rapidity 
with which forests are known to have sprung up on similar prairie 
in Missouri, as the country became settled so as to keep out the annual 
fires, shows that the present scarcity of timber should not be regatded as 
presenting any serious obstable to the settlement of the most extensive 
prairie district in Kansas, 
artificial irrigation, 
In regard to the mineral resources of Kansas, we have at present only 
this important and useful mineral abounds at a eager: south of 
sum are known to occur at several places not far west of the mou 
rocks crowning the summits of the Smoky Hills, deposits of iron ore, but 
were unable to determine in the a at pi command, whether 
or not it exists in large quantities.” ' 
5. On the Tertiary Flora of the vicinity of Vienna; by gene 
Errixesnausen, (Abhandl. der k. k. Geol. Reichs. Wien, vol. ii).— 
paper contains descriptions of 33 species which are illustrated by figures 
on five 4to plates. The principal conclusions from the facts are these? 
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some relations to that of Bilin in Bohemia, and of (Eningen, 
Gallen in Switzerland. _ 
