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cases, and on the grounds of the now growing famous resort in 
our county, “ Turkey run,” or as it is called by people away from 
here, “ Bloomingdale glens,” are several such cases. 
In a future article I shall show how the forest leaves have pre- 
served the sides of hills and thus allowed the small streams to 
cut out the bottoms of the hollows deep, steep and sharp, which 
are rapidly changing since the country has been cleared and 
farmed. Also how they have preserved the ancient beds of 
streams along the terrace bottoms of the Wabash river and its 
principal tribytaries till they are as sharply defined after the lapse 
of no one can venture to guess how many thousands of years, as 
they were when the last great final flood that cut out the beds 
Swept over these plains, 
I have said the storm here described was a cyclone. This I 
infer from the way the trees had fallen. In some parts of the 
track the trees were thrown in every direction, and the course of 
the storm could only be determined by the general course of the 
track, and not by the fall of individual trees. 
The course of this storm is. N. 44° 30’ E. in this county. In 
all my recollection of storms I never saw but one (in 1883) which 
bore so much to the north, and that one was the most threatening 
and awful in its appearance I ever saw, and did in localities much 
damage. Its course was about N. 37° E., or about 7° 30’ more 
north than the ancient one. The great majority of the storms I 
have seen, and of those which have left plain tracks, are from a 
few degrees north to a few degrees south of west. 
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ON THE MOUNTING OF FOSSILS. 
BY FRANKLIN C. HILL, 
E five expeditions which have gone to the far West from 
Princeton have brought in many valuable fossils—invaluable 
'S perhaps the better word—chiefly remains of vertebrates. 
x For the double purpose of utilizing and of preserving these 
Sastres they have been mounted in a manner new in this coun- 
wy; and it is believed not common abroad, though somewhat - 
ced there. 
The leading idea of the system is that each piece shall be set 
UP in its natural position. 
~ < Museum now contains nearly 400 such specimens, which _ 
