Washington Statesman

Subject for Geologists. -Mr. J. McCraith, of this city, has brought to this office a singular collection of bones which were found in a strata of gravel, mixed with crystallized substances and what appears to be pyrites of iron. They were discovered while sinking a well on his ranch in the neighborhood of the Lone tree. south-east of this town, and were embedded to the depth of twenty feet in the earth. The bones, although in a most perfect condition of preservation, are doubtless of great age, having assumed the form of crystalization and become cemented to a coagulated mass of mineral substance. We have not sufficient geological knowledge to enable us to analyze and discover its properties. Possibly we have here in this dull, strange compound of matter, all the elements to constitute in their reduction the grand result of the poet

Here silvery Selenite her crystal molds,
And soft Asbestus smooths his silky folds:
His cubic forms phosphoric Fluor prints,
Or rays in spheres his amethystine tints.
Soft cobweb clouds transparent Onyx spreads,
And playful Agates weave their colored threads;
Gay pictured Mochoes glow with landscape dyes,
And changeful Opals roll their lucid eyes;
Blue lambent light around the sapphire plays,
Bright rubies blush, and living diamonds blaze.

Naturalists and those fond of curiosities. are invited to call and examine the specimen.