366 General Notes. [April 
Inside there were six wicker gods with enormous frog-mouths 
and dugong-like bodies. 
The Empress Augusta River, in German New Guinea, has 
been navigated for two hundred and twenty-four miles by Ad- 
miral von Schleinitz in the “ Ottilie” The steam-launch pro- 
ceeded one hundred and twelve miles farther, and returned from 
want of fuel. This was in the dry season. 
GEOLOGY AND PALZ ONTOLOGY. 
Hummocks and Boulders of Decomposition in South- 
eastern Missouri.—Among the crystalline hills of Southeastern 
Missouri boulders of decomposition are frequently seen. In fact, 
it was owing to a small eminence—two hundred feet above the 
feldspathic rocks. Throughout the region the surfaces of the 
tude 38° N. 
The surface of the red granulite is commonly covered by its 
from twenty feet or less in width to forty or even one hundred 
feet. Some of the ridges are unbroken for a length of several 
hundred feet, while others are made up of a chain of hummocks, 
whose general trend as well as slope is southwest,—the same 
direction as that of the prevailing, but not numerous, joints 
shown in the adjacent quarries. Some of the parallel ridges or 
chains have flat, rounded surfaces, thus, PO in, fn ge, 
whilst others are like inverted U’s, separated by narrow fur- 
rows from one foot to five feet or more in width, and from 
ten to twenty feet deep, thus, NNAN, which represent deep 
weathering and removal along the lines of joints. These hum- 
mocks have perfectly the form of typical roches moutonnées— 
less only the frequent, although generally superficial, scratches 
—of modern glacier regions. I places, upon what we 
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May call the roches moutonnées of Graniteville, ere are boulders, 
