The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-07-25
WHOLE NO 80 5.

mon organic remain, but not in existence as
living genus. %
The nioiar tooth of mammoth weighs s
lbs. aud the knob Of the bone of The leg is a
foot in diamater 1t was !csrniyerous ami
NAL, and the Indians have traditions Of their
terrible devaslations.
"A whole mammoth was found ia 1900 i'm.
bedded within ice, near the mouth oftIie Le-
ma. Il was nine feet high; and its horns
weighed 400 lbs. The skeleton il now at
Petersburgh! ~
Giants bones, IL, is, 20. and 80 feet
high are credibly reported 10 have been
found, but there is now no doubt but they
wore organic remains Of colossal quadu-
Ipedss> ee
In 1921 The bones Of an enormous nam.
moth were found near Rochester
There are beds Of sea shells 1000 feet high
on Etna, strata Of gray clay, filed with shells
much higher. The base is lava and marine
substances in alternate layers; aud beneath
a stratum of lava is stfatum of, rounded
pebbles, while above i are calcareous emf
neDces formed by the sea. A Scilian capon
who examined some Of the beds Of lava, sep
Grated by rich soils, has calculated that al
least 400 years have passed during their
formation. ass3 as
Thrly.one great erupiions have occurred
within The records ofahcient history. StoneA
of immense size rise to the height Of 1000
Ifeei, and others fall 100 miles distant.
Ip Volcanic action does not consist in the
combustion Of beds Of coal, bat ia terrestrial
operations seated deep under The oldest for
mationsi and hot springs in Germany issue
from gneiss, granite, and clay slate. ai&
The Giants Causeway is on assemblage
Of basaltic or volcanic columns mile in ex.
tent. ,7ssss5
The site Of ancient Rome Is on volcanic
products, covering marine formation.
AT the Lisbon earthquake, Bristol Hot
Wells became red. A well in Kings Wood
became black; aud the Avon flowed back
while rising.
Y Rounded pebbles are broken fragments Of
rocks, rendered smooth by mutual aiiritions,'
in long time, BY water and tides.
The land in the northern Is TO that in tho
southern hemisphere, as 10 10 S. The
length Of the old continent, taken from Behr-
ing's Straits to CAPE verd is 1000 miles,
and from Cape Horn to Mellyille's Island is
9000.a .egs2 1 f sG
The Amazon falls but foot IN SO niles,
or the Rhine one foot in a quarter of mile,'
he Loire foot in II milo. 80 .4
Fossil shells have been found on the top
Of the Pyrenees, and from 10 10 10000 OH
the Andes.
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Ninety species Of bones Of quadrupeds
have been found, (which are now unknown.
About 200 active volcanoes are recorded,
Of which 80 are in islands. Submarine vol
canoes often throw up Islands. The Azores5
the Lpari, the Canary Islands, &C., are ex-
amples. There seems no doubt butthe same
species fgaseous explosions; which cause.
volcanic erruptions, cause earthquakes, and
these always accompany the activity Of vol
canoes. ~ a ett,7pa M Ag
\, All volcanoes appear to exist near Sea-,
and, by the matter they eject, to have some
communication with it.
Volcanoes and tracts Of land are often ab->
stracted by the earth, and leave lakes in their
places. .s psa 5ia1a47q Fea'l ss
: Professor Daubeny ascribes earthquakes
and volcanoes 10 the access of water 10 tho
inflamable bases of the earths aud alkalies,
and this seems highly probable. When the
explosion is single or double, and confined
in cavernous space, il is an earthquake;
and chen fed and supported by water, as in
an elevation, it becomes a volcano. s
A volcano, lin 1915, in Sambawa, in the
Indian Seas, shook the earth 1000 miles
round. TITLED the air with ashes 300 miles,
and roared at that distance like thunder--
Others, as Eina, &c. have been equally ter
rife. s sse sss M