Miscellaneous Intelligen 



smaller than the Wyandot, hut is more remarkable for its s 

 titic hangings and the consequent beauty of its passages 

 chambers. 



The illustrations of the volume in general present well, 

 not extravagantly, some of the scenes of the caverns. 



6. Srnutific Survey connected with the Northern Pacific 

 road. — The directors of the northern Pacific railroad and «» 

 Oregon railway and Navigation Company selected, nearly a 

 ago, Professor Raphael Pumpelly, ; 



lands in the vicinit; 



7 of the railroads eros 



ward, entitled the ' 



" Northern Trans-coi 





the discovery and tes 







the investigation of 



soils, and the study 



the resources and i 



falue of the region. 





3 present time are He 





Professor E. W. Hil 



of soils; Dr. H. A 



. Hazen of Harvard 







