The weekly Butte record., 1863-10-31

up when l turned out Bishops drawers.
Pickett oyer-persaaded me. He's just
the man 10 bring the science home to
you. An, Mrs. Ellet, our landlady,
doesn't know it, but have carried up
her spare sheets and blankets into one Of
the atticS, and have a most beautiful
experiment in the formation Of mud
banks and coPper-yeins from aqueous
deposit in her linen chest. I've mixed
up in water earth and shells and >hil-
ling's worth of shrimps. In few days
when l drain the water IF. you come
over to me, and viii show You how the
top crust Of the world is formed, and
how the remains Of extinct animals get
mixed up with It. and undernath all a
copper vein. Only if our landlady and
Mrs. d. should by chance 90 to the
chest before the experiment is finished =
0 those women! those women -
But now, Jones, as you've a cold,
and can't 20 the hills, III show you
how geologist need 60 no futher
than his own room for study Of IN
comparably the most glorious Of sci
ences. I'll give to-day only an elemen-
tary lesson. When | come next Wen
go into the thing more completely. Now
look here, down came the hammer on
a corner of the imposing stone-'I
break off this little bit of metamorphic
rock; the character has been destroyed
by polishing, but now what beauty have
| not revealed
"Darrar," We cried, give us your
hammer. Let US send your hammer
out of the Office"
Thank you, thank you-I shall be
going presently. lis not worth while.
Dismiss from your mind what was just
saying about aqueous rock. Above the
igneous you have the metamorphic-you
have to speak Familiarity, the metallic
(types) above the metamorphic, (mar-
bic, and not the metamorphic above
the mctalic.''
1--WE have, have We 2"
"To be sure You have. Heat and
tle rressweof the superintendent strata
have given to these metamorphic rocks
their crystalline appearance, though it
is believed they We're once deposited by
water, ana contained fossils of which all
trace has been extinguished. Well,
then, J ones, en- the top Of the metamor-
phic rocks on the imposing stone, we
place Sir Roderick Murchison."
"Can it be possible 2"
eyes, Murchison and the Silurian
rocks defined and discovered by him
They used to be called, along with som2
others, the Greywacke formation"
30, indeed p
eyes. Here we have certain sand
stones, shales, limestones, fagstoneS,
states, and then comes copper veins
By Joye. Jones, you've slate top to
that console table. fit should be 81
lurian, You have copper lead, yoa hap
Ply dog If it should BE- Silurian -
Up leaped our friend, and up leaped
we, but not in time to save the chipping
Of a rather costly piece of furniture.
''Darrar - we cried, hoarse with rage
and rheum together, ''break another
piece Of furniture and we are enemies
forevarr'
"Ah, my dear boy, you have your
enthusiasm yet to come. I'll promise to
break nothing of any value. BIT Of
what value are these precious polished
specimens Of yours! Their values
doubled when they show the fracture
and the cleavage, and indica. e the ex-
istence Of copper. Nay; III break
nothing more. Well, then, then above
the Silurian, YOU have the old red sand
stone, and then above that ha but its
all fair to break coal-aboye that the
coal"
\ heavy lump Of coal was suddenly
whipped out of the coal-scattle, and
hammered into fragments on the green
baize covering Of the writing desk, be-
fore We could effectually interfere.
''Itis most interesting to search coal