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flowing the outer cliff to the depth of two or three feet or more, in 
different localities. The shores of Nova Scotia, according to the 
observations of Professor Marsh and others, were, if the speaker 
remembered rightly, sinking. The shores of Maine, as shown by 
Dr. C. T. Jackson, Dr. Packard and others, were rising. At Mar- 
blehead Neck he had observed a water-worn cliff elevated eight or 
ten feet above high-water mark, and protected by a ridge of shin- 
gle, which forms the back of the present beach. This beach now 
intervenes between the cliff and the water’s edge, which is between 
thirty and forty feet distant. 
Observations made by the Coast Survey show that the coast 
in Long Island Sound and southward in New Jersey has been 
sinking. The formation of Florida Keys shows that that state is 
rising. These and other facts which proper investigation would 
undoubtedly bring to light, indicate a series, or perhaps many se- 
ries, of transverse waves of elevation and subsidence running 
down the coast at right angles to the direction of the great waves 
which elevated the Appalachians. 
Mr. Niles showed that from the earliest times, in the Adirondacks, 
and at different points southerly, there had been peninsulas cor- 
responding in position with Florida, which was the most southern 
and latest 
Naturat History or DEEP-SÈA SOUNDINGS BETWEEN GALLE 
AND Java, BY CAPTAIN Cutmmo.—The ooze dredged up from a 
depth of two thousand three hundred fathoms, where the temper- 
ature was found to be 35° F., consisted to the extent of ninety per 
cent. of organic matter, Foraminifera, chiefly Globigerinz, to- 
gether with Polycistine, with a few broken sponge-spicules. In 
the shallow water near’Sumatra, the animal life has decreased to 
only about five per cent. of the ooze, the Globigerine having en- 
tirely disappeared. The water brought up from great depths was 
found to contain a large proportion of salts in solution, pers 
crystallized out immediately on exposure to the air. Mr. 
remarked on the great interest and importance of the tar 
of the low temperature of the deep water in a latitude within a 
few degrees of the equator, strongly confirming the conclusions 
as to a general circulation of the water between the equator and 
the poles drawn from similar observations in the Atlantic. — 
Nature. 
