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ae sed brown ~- bluish a Prova 2 Tertiary age, and in 
of v s dimensi or less mingled with clay. 
These ‘ahaies attend from the Bait Pete e valley | ina north-northeast 
direction for a distance of fifty or sixty miles, and the width of 
: saw the wax-like exudation in several places, but only in small 
- quantity. 
Other jis in Salt Lake informed me that the parafiine itself 
is sometimes twenty feet thick, and that the quantity is enormous ; 
— but A var aa Clayton says that such statements are not t authorized 
by any facts which have come under his observation 
In the above remarks I have called the earth wax of Utah 
ozocerite. As it has been stated to be zietrisikite, I may say that 
Co.).—The third ceed & this new cima published in 
. Wanderings in South Amer t é 
United States and the Antilles, in aes pee 1812, a8t6. 1890. ist 
by Cuartes Waterton, Esq. New edition, ‘edited with 
ood, 520 pp. 8vo. London, 1879. "(Macmillan & Ber 8. 
_ Volume of “ Waterton’s Wanderings” was first published in 1825, 
number of readers. In the present edition the original account is 
- unaltered, but to this are added a full and appreciative biog- 
y of the "author, by the Rev. B. G. Wood, and a valuable 
Hoclnsacoe: Index, covering 150 pages, in which information is 
given in regard to the many unusual animals, birds and trees, 
mentioned in the body of the work. 
