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He would there discover a bed of vegetable and animal exuvie, and 
going home, he might erect upon very plausible ground, a ver ood- 
looking hypothesis of a deluge, sweeping the whole upper country of its 
sand, and depositing it along the line of its conflict with the waves of 
the ocean. : 
2. Volcanic Eruptions in Northern California and Oregon.— Within 
the last few years there have been frequent reports of volcanic activity in 
or near the extinct volcanoes of Northern California, Oregon, and north- 
ward from that chain of high peaks. us, Mt. St. Helens in 1851, 
Lassen’s Peak in 1856, Mt. Hood in 1864, are most familiar, the ac 
tivity being shown by vast quantities of steam emitted. Various similar 
re occur at times in the newspapers of the Pacific coast. The Ore- 
gonian of last April contains the following: “Mt. Baker, it is said, is 
rapidly sinking in. It is asserted that the mountain has fallen 1000 or 
1500 feet, and that its summit, which was formerly a sharp point, is 
now much flattened. This peak has been for some time in a state of active 
eruption. Dense clouds of smoke have of late issued from it.” Corres- 
pondents of the California papers speak of the same phenomenon, oue of 
whom asserts that the emission of steam is immense, and that 1,200 feet 
Ww. H, B. 
of the summit has fallen in. We have no other data. 
Granville, N. eU. S§ Co. has j ened a new quarry 
late quarries abound in the neighborhood, some of which have been 
wor years; but in this new quarry seven pot-holes have already 
quarry. The largest complete hole is elliptical in shape, its longest di- 
ameter being 11 ft. 6 in., its shortest 10 ft.; its depth i 
and the bounding hills rise from it rather abruptly to the height of 50 to 
100 ft. The Rutland 
rry 
side of a bluff. The tops of the pot-holes are respectively 30, 25 and 
oie above the bed of the brook and about 800 ft. from it. There are 
ist eager the bed of the stream in which the pot-holes were 
pties into Lake Champlain. The quarry is WO 
nearest point of Poultney river. The side of 4 
