o Santa Fe 5
THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN--subscriptions 5
The Harbor of Havana* 6
A Very Long Nose 6
Sol. Smith 6
A Profitable Hoax 6
Reforming 6
Wrong Side Up* 6
Importance of Humility 6
The Eureka: or Journal of the National
Association of Inventors 7
ADVERTISEMENTS 7
The Ball of the Bears 7
All is not Gold that Glitters 7
Painting In Imitation of Rose-Wood 8
India Rubber 8
Communication on Atmospheric Resistance 8
The Conical Windlass* 8
Requisite Strength of Steam Boilers 8
Bagley's Gold Pens 8
The Humming Bird 8

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[Illustration: POETRY]

NATURE'S IMAGE OF WASHINGTON.

BY MARSHALL S. PIKE, OF THE HARMONEONS

DESCRIPTIVE: Opposite Harper's Ferry,--which is situated on a pleasant
elevation at the junction of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers--a few
rods north of "Pinnacle Bluff," a flighty eminence on the Blue Ridge
Mountains, stands a most singular formation of rock, known as
'Washington's Face'; and which, to a casualist void of imaginative
powers, is easily recognized if pointed out by a guide; but to a close
observer, however, with common discernable perception, it presents _at
first sight_ a most striking and correct resemblance of _the great
original_. From midway the bridge which crosses the Potomac, the
countenance and contour of the face _to me_, appeared discriminatingly
perfect, and constrained me to look upon it as _one_ of the most
wonderful, and the noblest work of revealed nature.

In the high barren cliffs of the Blue Mountain Ridge,
That frightfully hang o'er the trestle-built bridge,
Juts