Bridlington Crag
a deposit besists of sand and bluish clay, with fragments of various rocks. It contains ments of various rocks. It contains Arctic shells. It appears to have been mollusks, of which four species are extinct, natica occlusa, cardita analis, nucula cobboldiæ, and tellina obliqua; most of the remaining species are deposited during the period of the great- est cold. a brief or short statement or summary, BRIEF, from the Latin brevis, short, est cold.
BRIDGMAN, LAURA, an American blind mute, born in Hanover, N. H., Dec. 21, 1829. She was a bright, intelligent child, but at two years of age both sight and hearing were entirely destroyed by fever, but she learned to find her way about the house and neighborhood, and even learned to sew and to knit a little.
In 1839 Dr. Howe, of Boston, undertook her care and education at the deaf and dumb school. The first attempt was to give her a knowledge of arbitrary signs, by which she could interchange thoughts with others. Then she learned to read embossed letters by touch; next, embossed words were attached to different articles, and she learned to asso- the Pope gives his decision on some matembossed words were attached to differ-