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to the height of thirty feet above the water, the 

 strike of the beds being about south-west by west, 

 and north-east by east, or at right angles to the 

 general line of direction of the gneiss and granite 

 formation, which lies to the eastward. Many 

 boulders of granite and trap rocks are scattered 

 over the surface of the ground, far beyond the reach 

 of any modern means of transport. 



Thunder and lieavy rain detained us in our 

 encampment the whole of the following day ; but 

 some improvement in the weather taking place at 

 midnight, we embarked, and at one in the morning 

 of the 16th entered Sturgeon River, named by the 

 voyagers, on account of its many bad rapids, " La 

 Riviere MaligneP We made two portages, and an 

 hour after noon reached Beaver Lake. The entire 



limestones as occurring in this neighbourhood. Mr. Woodward 

 says of the latter specimen, " The only wood-cut in the New 

 York State Surveys at all resembling your engine-turned fossil, 

 is a very rude representation of part of a circular disk, with 

 radiating and concentric (not engine) turned lines. It is called 

 Uphanteria chemungensis, and is supposed to be a marine plant 

 (p. 183. Vanuxem). A fossil much like yours is figured by 

 De France in the Dlctionaire des Sciences Naturelles under the 

 name of Receptaculites nepttmi, from Chimay, in the Pays Bas. 

 This is certainly of the same genus. De Blainville also de- 

 scribes it in his Actinologie at the end of the corals, but offers 

 no opinion respecting its affinities. I should compare it with 

 Eschadites Koniyi of Murchison's upper silurian, but that was 

 originally spherical and hollow." 



