884 General Notes. [October, 
the coast, there are numerous craters from which mud and water 
were discharged. Near the Coosaw mines, S. Ca., there is a 
crack in the earth 200 feet long and six inches wide at the top. 
n St. Helena island, off Beaufort coast, several large openings 
were made and piles of mud and sand were forced up. Passen- 
gers on the first through train from Charleston to Savannah since 
the earthquake Thursday, say that holes in the earth resembling 
wells have opened in the neighborhood of Charleston and for 
miles along the coast. They vary in diameter, but average two 
feet. Mica and other minerals not known in that section before, 
are found around their mouths. Mud of a bluish color oozes 
from fissures in the ground surrounding them, and the water 
savors of soda. People living near them report that when the 
water first burst forth from the ground it was steaming hot and 
shot fifty feet into the air. On Pac island, near Beaufort, a fissure 
in the earth, twelve feet wide and 400 feet long, still remains. 
All the islands in that vicinity report similar fissures, with mu 
and water issuing from them. i h 
Disturbances are reported from the Black mountains of Nort 
Carolina, but nothing of a reliable character has reached us from 
that quarter as yet. We shall await with interest ne 
from this region, and will hope that some geologist, competen 
from familiarity with those mountains, may make a detailed in- 
vestigation of their present condition. il 
Some comments on the probable cause of the earthquake wii 
be found in our editorial department. 
diles, while the Liassic and Wealden crocodiles approach neare 
to living forms in this respect.—Mr. A. S. Wood 
= Teviews the genus Notidanus. No undoubted _traces © ty- 
_ genus can be found in beds beneath the Middle Odlite. Tee 
= Imperial Academy of Sciences include extensive stu 
_ Stan fossil reptiles, by W, Kiprijanow. Part 11 (1883 Jura, 
_ descriptions of Thaumatosauria from the chalk and Moscow 
onging to the genera Polyptychodon, Thaumatosaurus 
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