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Aug. 24th. Early this morning I took to the boat for Queens- 

 ton, and thence by a very wretched railway reached Niagara to 

 dinner. 



Aug. 25th. We went by the railroad to Lockport, to pay a visit 

 to Colonel Jewett, the most warm-hearted of collectors of fossils. He 

 showed us his collection as far as it was accessible, gave the Pro- 

 fessor several specimens, and showed us where to pick up more for 

 ourselves. At the quarry of hydraulic limestone we saw an interest- 

 ing document for the geology of the drift-period. The soft rock was 

 abundantly furrowed, from a direction a little west of north. One of 

 these furrows gradually deepened, until it was interrupted by a suc- 

 cession of horseshoe shaped hollows, sloping from the north, and deep 

 and abrupt towards the south, showing that the furrowing mass was 

 moving from north to south, and from some interruption had chipped 

 out these bits. 



From Lockport we drove to the line of the railroad, and returned 

 home by the same way as we came. 



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