446 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
of wood, and boiled for a short time. The lixivium was then poured into 
large reservoirs where it crystallized into a solid mass. Blocks of alum 
weighing about fifty catties each, were hewn out of the reservoir and 
carried in this state in bamboo frames, one on each end of a porter’s pule 
to the place of shipment, where it is broken into fragments. When not 
designed for immediate exportation the blocks are stored away for drying. 
On reaching the depot the alum is found charged with a double quantity 
of moisture, the porters being obliged to deliver a certain weight, 
slip their burdens in the mountain streams which they pass in the journey. 
Judging from the number of laborers engaged in transporting the 
mineral on the day of our informant’s visit, the quantity brought from 
the works could not be less than eighteen tons. This was represented as 
less than an average day’s work, as labor was in such demand just then 
for agricultural purposes, that double pay was given ;—and aged men, 
a quarter a ton at the landing, woul ord the manufacturer a fair 
profit. It often fetches much more, as there n an increasin, 
gn vessels, 
6. Report of the United States Mexican Boundary, made under the 
direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Witu1am H. Emory, Major 
ier o 
1. Prodromus Descriptionis Animalium Evertebratorum, é&c.; by W- 
) n. Part VI, Crustacea Oxystomata of the North Pacific 
dition. Mr. Stimpson here mentions thirty-one species of capt: Se 
omata, including eleven that are new, and the four new genera, oe 
» Cryptocnemus, Onychomorpha, and Tymo.us. 
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