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A Singular Sand Hill

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
January
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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Aceording to the Reno (Nev.) Gazette there is a remarkable liill of moving sand in Churchill County, Nev., sorne sixty miles from Land Springs Station. Tho dune is about four miies long, a mile wide and from 100 to 400 fcet high. The sand is so fine that if an ordinary barley sack b,e lilled and placed in a moving wagon, the jolting of the vehicle will empty the saok.and yet the sand has no form of dust in it and la as clean as any sea-beach sand. ïhö mountain is so solid as to give it a musical sound when trod upon, and oftentimes a bird lighting upon it or a largo lizard running acrosa the bottom. to sliding, whleh makes a noise resembling the vibration of telegraph wires with a bard wind blowing, but so much louder tbat it is often heard at a distance of six or aeveu miles.and it is deafenirjg to a person standing within a short distance of the sliding sand. A peculiar feature of the dune, says the Gazette, is that it is not stationary, but rol.ls slowly eastward, the wind gathering it up on the west end and carrying it along the lidge unlil it is igain depcsittd at the eastern end. Mr Monroe, a well known surveyor, having heard of the rambling habits of this raaniruoth sand heup, quite a number of years ago took a careful benring of it wbile surveying Government lands in that vicinity. Several years later he visited the place, and found that the dune had moved somelhing over a mile. Tlio twinkling of the stars is generalij admitted to Be due to moisture in the upper air. M. Montig-nv, in a paper pnblished in Les Modes, liolds tliat a vary pronounced twinkliag of the stars indicates either commotion in the upper regions of the atmosphere or :v suddcn fall of temperatura there, thua deaoting tlio conditsona of au eaiiy appearunoM bad weathor.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat