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flow, has overlaid the intervening valley so much, that, on the Crossfell 
side you may almost step from the New lied to the section of the Old. The 
sea, from which were deposited these rocks, eventually withdrew, and our 
county was then added to that dignified portion of the earth's surface, 
' The Dry Land which it maintained throughout the long ages of the 
Oolitic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary periods, subject to the wear and tear of 
storms, and the convulsive throes of earthquakes, till Divine Providence 
directed the icy sea of the Drift era, to cover its naked surface with a coat 
of gravel, sand, and clay." It may be here remarked, that the shocks of 
earthquakes are not unknown even at the present da}'. So lately as the 
morning of the 6th of last December, this district was visited by a very 
sensible convulsive quiver. 
Society of Aets. — 17th December. — " On Mines, Minerals, and Miners 
of the United Kingdom." By Hobert Hunt, Esq., F.R.S., of the Govern- 
ment School of Mines. A valuable paper full of important details. It has 
been reprinted by Professor Tennant from the * Society of Arts Journal,' 
for gratuitous distribution. 
Anthkopological Society. — This society, founded on the 6th of Janu- 
ary last, already numbers 120 members, and has commenced its meetings. 
It has been formed with the object of promoting the study of Anthropo- 
logy in a strictly scientific manner ; to study man in all his leading aspects, 
physical, mental, and historical ; to investigate the laws of his origin and 
progress ; to ascertain his place in nature and his relations to the inferior 
forms of life ; and to attain these objects by patient investigation, careful 
induction, and the encouragement of all researches tending to establish a 
de facto science of man. Many of the researches undertaken by this so- 
ciety will fall legitimately within the provinces of Geology and Archajology. 
The following Council has been appointed : — President — Dr. James Hunt, 
F.S.A., F.U.S.L., For. Associate Anthropological Society of Paris, etc. 
Vice-Presidents — Captain liichard F. Burton, H.M. Consul at Fernando 
Po, etc. ; Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart. Honorary Secretary— C. Carter 
Blake, Esq. Honorary Foreign Secretary- — Edward B. Tylor, Esq. Ho- 
norary Assistant Secretary — Alfred Higgins, Esq. Treasurer — R. S. 
Charnock, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.G.S. Com««7— Eudolph Arundell, ICsq. ; 
Alan C. Blackstone, Esq., M.A., F.R.G.S.; W. Bollacrt. Esq., F.R.G.S. 
Corr. Mem. Univ. Chile and Ethno. Socs., London and New York ; Luke 
Burke, Esq., F.E.S. ; J. F. CoUingwood, Esq., F.G.S. ; G. D. Gibb, Esq.. 
M.D., F.G.S. ; J. Hughlings Jackson, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.P. ; S. J. 
Mackie, F.G.S., F.S.A., F.E.S. ; Edward Pick, Esq^, F.E.S. ; T. S. Pri- 
deaux, Esq. ; AVilliam Travers, Esq., M.R.C.S. ; W. S. W. Vaux, Esq.. 
M.A., F.S.A., r.R.S.L. 
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Abtificial Cavern. — A cave has been lately discovered in New Hamp- 
shire (America), whence the Indians of New England are supposed to 
have obtained their arrow-heads and flint-instruments. The cave is an 
artificial excavation, twenty-eight feet long, twelve wide, and eight or ten 
high, with a narrow mouth, in a jasper vein enclosed in granite," of a 
steep mountain-spur on the banks of the Androscoggin, one and a half 
miles from Berlin Falls. 
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