120 General Notes. [ February, 
its diameter three. The only entire object in metal was a poniard, the 
layers of the blade peeling off and broken. It measured thirty-five centi- 
metres in length. There was a point of another. 
Lastly, there was a human bone completing the contents of the cavern, 
which is now no longer accessible, the ditch having been filled with dead 
and closed. The objects, however, are carefully preserved in the munic- 
ipal building of the Piano. — Ciara L. WELLs, Rome, October 19, 
1876. 
GEOLOGY AND PALHONTOLOGY. 
Newserry’s GEotocy or Parts or New Mexico anp Uran! — 
Although much of the region surveyed by Professor Newberry in 1859 
has been reéxamined by later explorers, yet geologists will be interested 
in this account of the independent observations of so distinguished an 
observer, while the traveler and explorer will be attracted by the fine 
colored views of the more striking points in the scenery of the route sur- 
veyed. The report is divided into seven chapters, and is accompanied 
by eleven chromo-lithograph plates of views taken in Northwestern New 
Mexico, Southwestern Colorado, and Southeastern Utah. Eight plates 
accompanying the paleontological descriptions of Mr. Meek and Pro- 
fessor Newberry illustrate the fossil shells and plants. Archzologists will 
be interested in the account on page 41 of the ancient mines of turquois, 
or chalchuitl, situated in Los Cerillos Range in New Mexico, as well as 
in the views and account of the ancient ruins of the San Juan Valley, 
which this party was one of the first to visit. 
GEOGRAPHY AND EXPLORATION. 
Warrken’s IMPROVEMENTS OF THE Fox anp Wisconsin RIVERS.” — 
In a report of over one hundred pages, illustrated by ten maps and plates, 
Gen. G. K. Warren, who has long been connected with Western and 
Eastern river improvements, and in so doing has always had an eye to 
the scientific relations of the subject before him, gives a historical 
sketch of the discovery of the route of these two rivers, with plans for 
their improvement by a canal. By the maps and scattered observations 
the report is rendered one of much general geological and geographical 
interest. 
Srtmpson’s EXPLORATIONS ACROSS THE GREAT Basin or UTAH. — 
To those interested in Western geography this volume (which has been 
in MS. since 1860) will have an especial interest. Not only is it valu- 
1 Report of the Exploring Expedition oh Santa Fé, New Mexico, to the Junction of 
the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West, in 1859, under the 
Command of Capt. (now Col.) J. N. Macomb, U. S. Engineers. With es Re- 
port by Prof. J. S. Newserry. Washington, D.C. 1876. 4to, pp. 148. Wi 
maps and plates. 
2 Report of Explorations across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah, for a Direct 
Wagon Ro Route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley, in 1859. By Capt. (now 
Col.) J. H. Stimpson, U. S. aan Washington. 1876. 4to, pp. 495. Maps 
and 17 plates. 
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