New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-31
SINGULAR GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES

From The Cincinnati Columbian, March %.
AeepflemsD who recently arrived 10 this city ron
WARS County PeDnsy vaois, has 10 his possession,
nd has had on exhibition for several days past some
ysiy curious petrideo human bodies, which were
iuI6 by lin IN the bed Of stream Shlcu u QUE vi
aspriIcipal bfanc, ca Of the Alice hsny River.
Thete remains srs supposed 10 bs these .. man
rd womsD, who y the wonderful pettfact've
bowers Of nature, ave been turn ed to soid stone
sbch, on btiDs struck gives out clear riog, ami Is
y,,y had As petractions these stones are objects
Of great interest; but as much OF the appearance OF
hunsry has been lost by the attrton fro the ran
Ans - u, az the stream in ~bioh they had probably
Ian Co. ss.s .uey might afer attracting oIiof sttsn-
sor have been clss ed with other ordinary petrf4c.
ps ard been forgotten had not Thu close exzona-
htn by one Of our sapans Leo to the discovery tna'
they are refrsgsble proofs Of the existence of nsn
upcn this revolving CLONE long before he periods
vben corals crinodes and trbolites fret made their
sppeasrce.
heretofore no fossils have been found in primitive
rcebs and hence biologists have Inferred that for
yas periods in the worlds history nothing but plants
and the 10 yer types of anDsl life ia ex tence,
and that fer ages the earth inhabited oy saurians
ud other ere btures, row found only as fossils.
TIE ,trifacnons to which refer above and
which overun ,hs theory, may have been carried
sconiicerabt distance by the stream; but we do not
Ieed to know the locality in which they were or'gi'
nslly placed. They show by their constituent CHI
the WORLDS history. The remains supposed 10 be
toee Of female, are evidently from the sandstone
srssa ARD have nothing peculi4r about them except
ten indefiDi,eness and wanting the feet.
The pehifscton supposed to be tina. of man is
TIE great curiosity. its feet now wanting its
bocS ani leRs are composed of sandstone, and its
head Of quartz and gneiss Erom this single fsst sci
etce has evolved conclusions wh;oh overturn the
speculative hypothesis Of Agsss'z, Lyell Dana,
AZ the whole hott of modern geologiste. IL is we'll
ibown that quartz and gDeiss are primitive rocks
shich underls the sandstone rocks. Ii is assumed
hU when fret found the feet were on this male pe,ri-
eciiop but az they seemed slaty and of coa-llke
texture, they we're burned BY the wo men, VINO prefer
utility to scientific discovery.
r. this was 70 then probably the body WAS original
y 30 buried that the feet extended up ward into the
eaborifeao strata, and petrhed into cosl As
NE feet are now gone s perhaps improper to specu-
hs upon their cb sracter but luckily sc-nce has this
usroertpi body and head. The body beng a sand
sere proves that the perfscon must have been done
the tandstoue strata ard the head being OF gness
and quartz proves that it must have been peIrifed
uto eness and quartz in the gneiss formation We
may be Avn row this could bsppen, and the answer
kobyious.
II il csitsi0 IA, an W IN alive. must have inhso-
lied the sandstone Ivf pen d. aud IT, as We think Is
EVIDENT be was buried head eownSGd, and At just
such depth hat bis bead N the gneiss and his
BODY in the sandstone forr STOP, then il Is easy to
conclude that his body icto sandstn aud bs
head into quartz and gDese. Upon no other hypothe-
cao the quartz and gDei,s head Of this petftacou
b accounted for 1t is hardly likely that the man
buried n sandstone strata where al but the head pet
I6ed and that then, by convusion Of nstare, he
Was jammec into The loser primitive rocks, where he
10y for egss until by come other convusion OF nature,
he Has thrown out into the strea N, where found.
Whichever Of these eores be adopted, the old The
ory about man not being found in the primitive rocks
scouplttely overturned, and geoogiets will have tc
AekpowIsdg that there are more things 10 heaven
"sld earth than are dreamed of 10 their philosophy.