114 The West American Scienist. 
tion of the body, avoiding the shock to the sensibilities which 
revolt at the thought of the destruction by fire of the remains of 
loved ones. Other advantages of this new process are that it 
He prevent premature interments, and secure the body from 
theit. 
THE CLIFF-DWELLERS.—The cliff or cave-dwellers, reported 
extinct by the Smithsonian Institution, have been discovered by 
thousands in Northern Mexico, by Lieutenant Schwatka, in 
charge of America’s expedition into Mexico. In exploring the 
wild regions of the Sierra Madre Mountains, living clift-dwellers 
were found in abundance, wild and timid, and flying at the white 
man’s approach. Their habitations are precisely similar to the 
old, abandoned cliff-dwellings of Arizona and New Mexico,whose 
inhabitants were supposed by archzologists to antidate the 
mound-builders, and to be quite extinct. But Lieutenant Sch- 
watka’s discovery makes it clear that these are probably descend- 
ants of the ancient cliff-dwellers, who were driven from their 
more northern habitations, and retired to Southwestern Chihua- 
hua, where they have been living for centuries, undisturbed, fol- 
lowing the primitive habits and customs of their ancestors, about 
whom there has been so much speculation Schwatka, there- 
fore, gives to the world the first information relating to these 
curious people, and is about to set out on an expedition to fol- 
low up his discoveries and investigate them more thoroughly. » 
He estimates that the cave and cliff-dwellers number from three 
to twelve thousand; and they are armed only with bows, arrows, 
and stone hatchets. They are tall, lean, and well-formed, with 
blackish-red skins, nearer the color of the negro than the Ameri- 
can Indian. They are sun-worshippers, and practice several 
forms of devotion to that luminary. 
ANOTHER MAMMOTH CAvE.—An exploring party attracted 
by the reports of a discovery made by a farmer in Wyandot 
County, Ohio, of a mysterious hole in Limestone Ridge, visited 
the place and made a descent to find out what was at the bottom 
of the story and the hole. The place proved to be an immense 
cavern, sixty feet in width at the landing the party made, they 
having gone down by rope 1co feet through a hole varying in 
diameter from three to thirty feet, through limestone rock. The 
ceiling rose like a dome to a height of at least fifty feet. Explor- 
ing the recesses of the cave, the party suddenly emerged into 
another mammoth chamber, apparently much larger than the 
first, and, like it, set with numerous stalactites and stalagmites of 
beautiful formation and marble like whiteness, sparkling brilliant- 
ly in the light of the Roman candles fired into space by the visit- 
ors. Ata long distance from the entrance they came upon a lake 
of pure, crystal clear, cold water. of unfathomable depth. 
To BrEAK Up THE SLAVE-TRADE.—About $4,150,000 have 
