Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-10-05

The latest sandstone. No other petriG,cl lions were
discovered in the vicinity nor d. there npptar TO be
any quality vi the water which produced this reuaI-
able result
Large specimens of Ibis tree have heen brough, TO
TINS city, and viii he deposited among the various
collections ~ the country.
We understand that Mr.. Schoolciaft who accom-
p1heI 10y Cas-, and who has remained at Chicago
Tor few days, has collected d the facts which could
be ascefcuncd, and which could reflect light npon
this interesting subject His mneraloscal and geo
logical requirements are well known, and there are
lew men IN our country who are more competent
th'in he X 10 pursue such investigations The SCI
entihc world may expect from him an ;blo and inter-
eStng memoir.
This tree must he COMPOUNDED witt, those par
al or local peritactions which frequently found
M springs and small streams. Ii is entirely different
IA Us character and its position, and the substances
IN contact with II claim for antiquity at least coe-
val with that OF the bed OF the river. But we must
leave To others, who able the task Of spe-
culatins upon this interesting and unexpected disco
very. 1Gt.
Strange and extraordinary -inaoLs IF North fmsricn
D. b. Warden Es of Paris, has written that Dr. Mitch
lis description ofihe hte, Federation Squirrel
Of me Prairie dies chen seat him by Government Cas Of
Michigan has been rcpuGlshed from the Medical Reposto.
~ IN the Encyeopada Review" The animal supremacy ee
gan,i aud really To have been intended type
oar Union Mr. hilbert has made drawing of him for the
board of learned men that surround the Kings Museum at
Paris Mr. Nuial will give his history and in the
travels ,, he's ne Is now low preparing for publication
don to Zoology This is nothing less than Proeus,
well known inhabtant ofthc middle lakes. The only ami
bant OF the suoieraneous waters of Carnlol Austria
described by laurent ard Screibers of which speci,
men from the Cabinet of the Emperor Francis Vienna
was placed in Dr. MitchiS Museum by Baron Lederer
This extraordinary creature is repuied possess double
set oil respiratory organsthat is externally on each
side OF the neck, and lungs internally within torax
The particulars detailed with anatomical precision and
mnutcneS in the Italian Treatise of
nj Payia and in the French publication the Animal KIM
dom (yoi ., 1927 by the Cheyalier Cuyier of Paris
Mr. Delaieds Reptile is about long, being one al
the smallest individuals of the species chosen for the ease
transportation The full grown long ant,
excepting their four legs, shaped like an eel
The skin IL smooth and spotted. There
both the fore and hind feet This caught
dissection OF this uoye production the ciep-
iifc taste and public spirit of the discovere incline him TO
make the most oft, for the advancement knowledge
Almost invariably happens when an Individual or even
set oil Individuals proclaim the existence before un-
known ANIMAL which they have had opportunity of
my that they obliged the ridcuie of ile
majority OF world who have had the opportu-
~ III ocular demonstration II recoliect rightly
years ago Mr. jefferson asSacd with w.anon
which rdicule could direct, because he that there
were horned i'll the then territory of Almost
rs much ridcue was then let OFF against the
horned frogs has been recently discharged against The
believers IN the Gloucester Sep,nS Min vet ia The
iorner case nj least ii wholly unmcred
To exhibit the extensive and Information of am
ie observer oil nature, the
Juice OF his adversares. Mr. Jefferson neither msa-
ken nor imposed upon. There then horned frogs In
Louisiana and if GOV. Miller his whole colony on the
Arkansas, are not in Horned frogs to be found
| there
We have recently one, presented Gov. Miller 10
e New England Museum Its head is completely
eu with hbrlS and in other
from our common irogs, though the general ey
striking lis oNara are oval, covered with tl membrane
| and nearly OF the size OF Il robins egg.
y description of such animal. wo,li
et WITH rs ie creduliy the widest stories about
| the Gloucester sea Serpent. Boston Put