The weekly Arizona miner., 1877-09-28
oRIGIN OF NAN

eries of Geological lectare
 ,isc,,. in whieh he snnOsn
 ,..rtiing disclosures rf
 declares can sec ana trtf mare man history has recorded. and with far greater 4cf:urncy. fs his lecture on the orig.n of man. at Dsshaway Hall, on the 18th inst, he said
 Mn began "u continent which lies now cs the bed of the Pacific and Indian oceans. and whuse tzblelsnds are now the islands .f t)eeanica When this continent was sub murycd, man passed thence into Asis, and from Asia first into America and last into yunspe. Science will not echo the despair of ,hs historian. LsIst is not lost, and whether ;u Earoi,e. Asia Africa or AmerIca; whether is the wil,ls of Oregon, ar on ihe last found ,sl.ud af the Pacific, whenever we find man ve find him under the shadow of a mighty nae, xhss. ech ses reverbefaie through his m.aners and spe oh. Man prowled aiCng ,be shores of oceans and lakes and banks f ,rrrs, and won his support fir 'm the waters bssore he pushed his dominion inn the zcol. Man wss impotent it WAS oniy oa ,he fringe of this great glolre that f1, tha.sn,ls of years he could plant the snle ef his foo.. At the lowe-t level of ihe fn-- sI Ewe,t of Cslistoga all the tree which
 ase been exposed to view lie north and ssth. The tres at this level have been d,.- snwd by some sudden catastrophe snd lari,d unsicr lava ashes. Time p1s-ed. s I Oser this searred Iu.n spread an 'ther yr,v- of rclwoo.i. The lips "f the crater open d gain. and an ihcr fl bod of scnris and skuwcr of ash wheimed the gr1ve in ruins Fassll trees occur at five or six levei,. and sssr the iovest level were 800 feet If lawn ssh. Above the highest level WAS bcd os snaglamcrate. The pebbles had beel rolled ssd roanded m a beach. The lava has ls'cn erxe.i io depth of five feet ur more. T'hi- kstR, suStains a significant rrlarinn to usa. A visitor at the forest may see q
 Fsgmeur of whst WAS redwood from one nf
 be iosest levels-a fragment which ht. hra harked by some sharp instrument. n0.t likely of oiIsi,lisn. IL is obvious inst this hacking WIS done by man, and d"n a ih. tree. not the fossil. We infer thSi mn ss n California before the great v"lcanic rupsiou. which buried under ash and sc 'riA .Ae great part of Sonoina cnunty. and which
 gre birth io the C ,ast Range mountains
 he ID n of that period was mt :" low as
 ,k digger of the last century. This msy k the eldest record of man frurd ou the ise ef the globe, but a better chnnn plogicsl rrorI is fpund m the river. A river writes
 s history. sni the history If everything oval xith if, in its hanks. The CT 'sioa- of ae nvers of Europe and America, cx- rpt saose west of the Ro.ky mouniain~. Hre dthe same depth, showing that the river> rs If nearly ihe same age. Man was pr'w- hsg along the banks of the Thames when II
 ssed i50 feet si.ove its present level. and
 srs h. dropped his implements of fisn'. f.'' e ind them thee now. Primitive man in Esrope was a cave slweiier. and m0.t iater- star traces ef the habits of the savage A c Issl iE the caves. Ole If these caves in EyiHni has been thoroughly explored. and the first layer af ear h. which records a lsrnd of sbaut l 500 years ago, we tnd ih" ssFs of sBim1ls BOW existing, rrmai1s nf hsss coins nf the d tie of Trajan, snd imple. Eafs ef bronze. Again. we come to is''i asalagmitc i5 feet thick. which may have lsa nearly 01.o0) years in forming. Be " this Is more cave earth, and in t We hd remain. of animsls that lived tn 'ro- ptal elimt,e. ,ueh as the river horsr ant hg-r. Mn was here. alsa. and this l. aoldess rec inl we have of him. He wS.
 aers .svag... little better than his cav~ ases. but frsm such past has e"nc th E'ssesi, and from ib- present wbsi s g'lden A's,s may unfold. for man is not made, bai nasing,