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de Lausanne. 98 pp. 12mo. Lausanne, 1880.—This little book 
Lake Geneva) and the passage of the Rawyl (from Lenk to St. 
Leonard). The highest summit is that of the Diablerets, 3246 
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the party on the coast of Alaska. : 
The most striking discovery made so far this season is that of 
entirely disappeared ; leaving a sheet of ic 
indescribable appearance. e waste in these exposed spots is 
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from Lyme, Conn., by M. DesCioizEaux.—At the close of the 
Paris Exposition of 1878, a fragment of the beautiful coarse 
granite from the McCurdy quarry at Lyme, Conn., was given by 
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eldspar from 
yme. It is a true microcline, but of an altogether peculiar 
structure, for the study of which the ordinary magnifying power 
