The New York herald., 1851-08-29


Nitric acid .... I04 Magnesium $50. 2O2l
Silicic acid. .... 005o Soaium ......... 3.4l2
Carbonic acid .... 0O2I Potas stun. ...... l.461
PhosphoIic acid. 0.050 Chlorine ...l2770
Sulphuric acid. .. ii7 B!oomine Ol41
Peroxide oil IRON. 0Z3
Whole amount OF solid matter. ........ .Z300
Specific gravity, LIST
IL is by means siug uar that this water shOuI1
contain great proportion OF solid matter, when
it is considered that has outlet to carry away
its volatile bodys and tnat hills Of fossil salt
are situated on its south vest coast from which are
constantly running into il small streams saturated
with their SALINE materials. AT its south end Ii q
bed Of an indurated nitrous character Springs OF
petroleum occur along Its bordt Large quantities
of iLdurated btuninous matter invests the stones at
its bottom, and along Its shores.
one gallon Of pure water weighs at 80 deg Fab 1oibe
One cubic foot Of pure water ..G232
PENDULUM BUNKER HILL. MONUMENT, BYY
PROF E. N. HokSFvRD, OF HARVARD.
The following is but brief abstract:-Ths
pendulum was two hundred feet IN height. Inc
motloL of the monument created u dithculty whlch
had to be overcome. There vas also another dis
turbance which created AN oscillation in the swing
OF the pendulum, which he had to examine before
arriving at the result reached by Foucault. Each
oscillation requ red eight and one sixteenn seconas.
The ofessor then read the tabular results OF nis
numerous observations of the oscillations OF the
pendulum. He also stated the results Of several
EXPERIMENTS which had been made to test some
popular notions relative the oscillation Vt bodies
IN state of suspension.
ON SOME REPTIlIAN FoorMARKs THE INFRA-cAR
BoNlFERoUs sHALE OF PENNSYLVANIA, b
PROF IL. ROGERS.
Professor HENRY ID ROGERS exhibited to 'he geo
logical section of the Association, specimens OF I'M
piessons the vespsrune, or mira Car oomiersIs
red sandstone, Of the anthracite region OF fennsy
vana, and submitted a description OF their iorns'
lie showed their anaogles to the footpr nts OF rep
titan animals but did not pretend 10 Indicate TO
what subdivision These ma ks are of ~ three
species they are all Of them hvetoed, and in double
rows, with opposite sy metry, as ma te by right
and left feet, while they likewise display the alter
nation of fore foot and hind-foot la o'her words
| they evidently quadrupedal One species, the
| largest discovered, presents u diameter for each
footprint OF about two inches, shows the fore and
hina eet to be nearly equal in dimensions, displays
| q length OF stride of about nine inshes Aud q
breadth between the right and left treads Of nearly
four inches and 1t shows the hind feet little ia
The rear CT the fore feet THIS disposition Of the
foot and other features described, deemed
by Professor Rogers to ally the animal which made
them rather to the sauran reptiles than to the,
bati iacians or chelonians, but he wished to speak
doubtingly OF point difficult Of decision in the
| pres, Mt state of our information Another series
smaller impressions displays also the quadrupedal
Indications there being The alienation OF fore
and hind and Of rig ht and left feet the inter-
walls between the lore and hind feet about
equrdistant. In this species the width between the
right and left feet is more han half the length of
| each stride Associated with these foot marks
all the evidences subassisl exposure Of the sur
faces on which they are impressed, us sun cracks,
rain spotipg, and the Signs Of the trickhDgs OF .
wet sandy beach, they seem with = Wy discovered
family OF plants, which VIC inferred from their struc-
ture TO have grown in shallow Saser by the sea
side All these associations conhrm the infere nee
from the form of the footprints tnemsel res, that
the animals imprinting them belJpged to ar-
breathing, an lot to aquatic Faces
| Professor AoAssIz was disposed to combat the
views advanced that these were the foot prints Of
some tribe Of reptilan animals and he ventured to
| conjecture that they might more probably have
been made by articulated animals, espec ally GER
| tain tribes of herons He indoa how GER
tain families Of fishes imprint the wet sand over
which they swim, leaving marks somewhat resem-
linz linn fanf.s lie
however, dssented from by otner mombsrs The
abinous quadrupedal ar 'angcment OF the Pennsyl-
yania footprints was again adduced by Professor
Rogers, In evidence that these at least, could not
have beenlef by worms, nor even by fishes
ON IHE PASSAGE OF AsrIcLlsAL AXES INTO FAULTS.
w. b..
At the beginning Of this communication, Prof.
X. referred TO the peculiar structural features Of
the great southeas Appalachian belt, which has
its continuation in the district of New York Of
the Hudson, and in Western Vermont Tne series
OF folded plicatoss Of the strata in this pro-
lCngod zone, was first recognized and reduced to
general law, by Profs IA. u aud w b Rogers,
more than ten years ago, at the ne time thA the
various phases or grsdations OF antcliosl and syn
clina axes made the subject OF examination.
Prof X. showed, by a series OF figures on the black
board, the successive features Of AN anticnai Just
shcn IT forms a normal arch, then steepcning more
| and more on its western side, until lt becomes q
folded axes. lie then pointed out the passage from
this latter, into fault, by tue fracture of the
strata, and the folding down and enSuhns of some
Of the rocks belonging to the western half of the
| anticliIal In this way the rocks OF the eastern
side Of the mountain are, in certain cases. made to
override and lie upon the edges of the
| tIata In other cases, as shown by the Professor,
the dsocation joined TO subsequent denudation has
| given the appearance of unoonfornAoc deposit
| ton ~ the newer upon the oloer ROCKS. Prof X.
referred to various srk,d instances in the Appala
chinn belt, in which anticllDs axes, rnentrsc
fgitudiually, passes by the traditions just inu-
| enC, into q fault. In some the tault thus
produced continued for long distance, as in the
| Great lines Of dislOcatiOn which pass from south
w,sttrI Virginia into Tennessee. and are taus pro-
longed for several hundred niles In other casa,
the line Of iaut, by reverse order, passes ssA'n
| into o. anticlnal axes
| Similar rhenou,cna were described in regard to
synelral axes But in this the east SIDE oitne
ases or trough became enguPhed rro' a,;.i,nai
IL ss the Law that, In the APpaiacnan an'icuosl
axes the fracture occurs always ON tho west s'de OK
the axes plane In synclina, it occurs on the east
side. A., -, 49,.
,o,tsree of ofattcnding to these phenomena Of dslo-
cation and pointed cut the fact that extensive lines
of urcobforrnity the sou Invest and else where, in
tbe Arpslach an belt, which clearly due to the
| 6aetuie and movement before described, liable
10 be interpreted as lines of original unconforma~
bility, ard have been so regarded by other OBJ
| servers Thus along the base Of the Cumberland
mtuniain, in southses,e Virginia ssd eastern
Tennes zee, the coa rocks abutting az linet
,he steep dipping lower Appalachian rocks, as IL
ceposied after the distuf bauce Of the latter Yet
Prof X. has actually traced these features into
anticlnal axis
ANALYSIS OF CELERY AriuM eRoocoLEus)-BY ,.
| II. SALISBURY, MD, (CBEAIsr TO NEW YORK. trs
| keHlCULTURAL SOCIETY,".
| We have. in this case, an interesting and remark
able instance Of the influence of cultivation upon
the sze, tenderness, and flavor Of plant. Cclery,
in its Wild state. is rank, coarse tough ana unns
cat; but when properly cul ul'ivaied, Is sseet u,sp,
iutv and of q m Jst agrceablc flavor, ana ls then
, Geil, e.teemea ss q solid, and as seasoning IN
! scrts Sc -.
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