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stone Park; (5) Yellowstone Lake; (6) Tower Falls and Sulphur 

 Mountain, Yellowstone Park; (1) Head of Yellowstone Uiver; 

 (8) The Grand Canon of the Yellowstone; (9) The Towers of 

 Tower Falls; (10) The Mountain of the Holy Cross, Colorado; 

 ( lI > '"ic Mn., !U i,,, Trail. 1,,.,-kv Mountains of Colorado; iL'i 

 Summit -i the Sierra NYxada; (13) Great Falls of Snake River. 

 Idaho; (14) Valley of Babbling Waters, Southern Utah; (15) 

 lhe Great Salt Lake of Utah. As specimens of chromo-IHi.'-ra- 

 phy and of artistic effect, the plates are of unusual excellence. 



Prof. Hayden, having become familiar with the region of the 

 Park through his two years of exploration there, and also with 

 the other parts of the mountains in the course of his repeated ex- 

 was well fitted to prepare the text for this book of 

 knrky .Mountain landscapes. 



5. Report on the Geological Sarvtaj of Alabama, tor 1876; by 

 -bUGENE A. Smith, State Geologist, 100 pp. sy,,. Montgomery. 

 Alabama.— The work during 1-7.; was confined to the valley 

 known as Roup's Valley and Jones's Valley. The valley occupies 



in the southwestern end of the 



an region, and has the coal basin of the Warrior on 



the west and that of the Cahaba on the east. The anticlinal has 



tor the most part the beds sloping regularly outward on the two 



sides; but m the southwest extremity the fold has been lapped 



together and pushed over toward the northwest, reversing the 



- uitheast. 



Hie rocks described belong to the Lower and Upper Silurian, the 



d by beds of the Clinton _, ,, - s „ , \ r . that in 

 the n 0r th is noted for the presenee of beds ot red ienticulai 1'os- 

 siliferous iron ore. In Alabama the same ore occurs in several 

 beds, lhe strata in Tennessee const it ute the , > •, v>rone group of 

 lroi,ssor>aft..rd. Analyses „f . | limestones 



are given in the Report, 



6. Annual 'Report of Progress and Results of the TU/V. nsin 



S "'""A to, the y,ar 1. 7 ... by T. '( I 



■ -<>: M,d.„n. Uie.cin. 1^77,-This 

 repoit con v of the WQrk done and results 



Obtained during thereat I-,. I: rate, that - a e„iloc, ion ot 



e osslls «aa already been gathered, many of them 



nd that this part of the work i> in the hands of R. S. 

 h*™ * c • ,"& . the . facts announced we learn that the copper- 

 run tedlv Zl 1 Mlch T"> ™ th its U; 'i'- 

 bed of ^rr ,h, -"'5 t,ltt ' >»«'•■" l-"t o, WiseoHM,,; and in the 



bedofNemakagon Kn r, nun, n ,us ma ,-,tiv. copper have 



: 

 far removed from the, \ ^rfcfa 



copper region. ' ll ^ aLU1 o LI1 < tL 



other° thin^ g ^ ne ° • the g eol °g«t 8 of the Survey, reports, among 

 and^a&ctnSr 1106 ° f ^ qUa " titieS <^ ,in '*» "^ 





