CHURCHES.
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There are in the New England States
alone, 700 congregational Churches, (ex-
elusive of Presbyterians,) and nearly that
number of clergymen.


In the United States the Prcsbyterians
have more than l,400 Churches, 700 MI
|nisters, 1855 Licentiates, l47 Candidates,
|3 Theological Seminares, and last year
had 100 900 Communicants.


Episcopalians have 10 Bshoprlcks, $50
|Clergymen, 700 Churches and Theolo-
gical Seminary.


Bap,ists have more than $500 Church
les and have Seminares.


Methodists have Dioceses, 1,l00 itin-
Grant Clergy. exclusively clerical. and
about 5000 stationary Ministers who at
tend also to other than ecclesiastical oc-
|cupatons, and more than $500 places OF
worship.


Universalists have 1913 preachers and
Zoo separate Societies.


Roman Catholics have metropolitan
See, and 10 Bishopricks, containing be-
tween 80 and 100 Churches. superintend
ed by about 100 Clergymen, with hume
rous Colleges, Schools aud Religious hou
ses. In the State of New York, withr
the last twenty years, this denomination
lis said to have increased from 500 to 10000
Upon the whole, do not think that we
can reckon less than 5000 places of Wor
ship, and 5000 Ecclesiastics in the United
States; besides 70 Theological Seminaries
and many Religious Houses.


4 77


I Verdant Ice yMountain.-Lieut. Kotze
i |bue has discovered, in the western part o


the gulf to the north of Behring's Straits
la mountain covered with verdure (mos'
and grass) composed interiorly of solid ice
ion arriving at place where the shore ri


ses almost erpehdicuiarly, from the SCI
e to the height of 100 feet, and continues al
lterwards to extend with gradual incl


|nation, they observed masses of the pures


lice 100 feet high; preserved under the a


lbove vegetable carpet. The portion ex
,,1posed to the sun was melting and sendin
eImuch water into the sea. An undoubte
u proof of this ice being primative, l. e. nc
!" formed by any causes now IN action, wa
!, ;, afforded by the great number OF bones an
teeth of mammoths which make their az
s-|pearance when it is melted. The soil {


these mountains, which, to certain heigl


are covered with an abundant herbage,
y lonly half foot thick; it is composed OF
m mixture of clay, earth, sand, and mould


the ice mel,s gradually beneath it, the ca


pet falls downwards and continues
,eIthrive the latitude is 60 Is SO MI
o. bert's Annals. 1921, quoted in the Journ
E, of Science and the Arts, No. 26, page 25