Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-09-13
GEOLOGICAL WONDERS.


GEOLOGICAL WONDERS.
rMoN THE NEW EvExrss aAzErrg.
DH- Rocks osrEoIosIcAL DscovEHrrs.--AIl who have
read with Interest that delightful Geological romance sVes-
ges of the Natural History Of Creation should not fail to
visit Dr. Koch at the Apollo The reader may remember
passage in " the yestges describing the au,eduvan land
scape prior the coal formation when the duh and eaden at
mosphere heavily charged with carbon that no warm
booded animal could breathe il when the ferns Of the
heighth Of tall pine flung their anke branches with un
wholesome sagnan pool that baekened
in their shade when huge lizards Of cabIeengh uncoed
their sluggish forms from the slime OF which they 10
form part and stretched their monsous lengths along the
oozy banks that yet sunbeams baked volcanic fires
hardened into rock
Now Dr. Koch upscts all this science in the
simplest possible by exhibiting piece of rock older
than the coal formation with the track Of bears foot and
other wann-booded animals imprinted upon il by the worthy
witnesses themselves who probably dreamed that their
footsteps were hereafter to sarte geoogiss, like
those which Robinson Crusoe saw the sand and cheer
Others, like those from which Longfelow tells
Seeing, may take heart again"
But the Doctor has that his collection which raises new
questions and disturbs old theories in st more important
degree Il j. nothing nor than simple rude arrow
head not differing u any respect hom those which
tinuaiy turned up by the plough all the country But
that arrowhead! knocks into cooked hat the learning
and philosophy of cenues for found below the strata
Of anedluvian plants and shells, and underneath he kigh
bone Of the giganiic tossAsed Mssourum which Dr. Koch
shot that must have been bent by some hunter of
Kentucky long before Noah entered the ark and te Ma
tive American who siilthunt after that Mssourum
instead Of being Tartar from the north of ASIA or de-
sendant Of the Lost Tribes Of Israel have been true
Aleghanan Of the SOIL of breed somewhat older than
Nmrod be A e8
But the fossil snake sc the great serpent of Apooo
This is undoubtedly the gandest astrological exhibition that
has been submitted to public curiosity for believe
Sauran has yet gone beyond sevenyfve feet and this
grandfather Of the would reach at least
Ia
latons Of his vertebra We make him of kin TO the
pen because his Hppers, like those of SEAL to mark
him a marine ANIMAL though DIR. Koch while exhibiting
his great carnverous teeth dagges OF ivoy) mbedded in
blocks Of limestone evidently inclined the belief that be
eyed upon the land while having his haunts along the banks
Of rivers Three bufaoes meal must have been about
fair allowance for this capacous feeder who umpy realizes
in bulk the portrait which history has drawn Of the great A
snake which stopped the march of the of Regulu
and yielded at last only the ponderous rocks hurled
from the Roman caaPult Liyy we know, is thought by
many to have been romancng in this snake story but
less Gen Taylor has by this time received his great guns
serpent like the Hydargos between him and the Rio Bravo
might the fea Of Lvys snake with army Of oc
cupaton
The interchangeable DIR. Koch (who will transfer this
wonderful skeeon he did his Missouu, the museums
Of Euope fairly in advance of all other discoveries
anteduvian remains unless indeed, the Mylodon or Mann
moth Sloh of South America be placed beyond the Hydrar-
gos, (Hydrachon , But there is still something he done
in this field Of inquiry which will place the successful explorer
upon pinnacle Of astrological where rival
him. Near the forks Of the Kentucky the enchanted
mountains in Tennessee, and in the neghborhood Of Paris
burg in Western Virginia, there is prevailing radon-nay5
strong living belief among many intelligent persons that
gigantic fossil human skeletons from time time disclosed
by the washing of the The writer
of this paragraph has heard than person
the spot that he had and handled these remansper
who when told that these be the Of other
animals than men, insisted that they had measured the
skulls which they knew to be human well any doctor
in the land for they had split them pieces fit them like
caps their heads and try the jawbones their
own"
When DIR. Koch red by the traditions Of the country
seek for the remains Of the Hydagos among the limestone
hills of Alabama his exploration thought by many be
utterly visionary They whose his creduiy now
lost in wondermen his would renew their cavils
should he respond to this call still doubtful field Of
research But this know would deter him from look
ing after these Aeghanian giants if induced again visit
this country after he has deposited his Hydrargos safely in
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