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Infusoria. But notwithstanding their coarse, and, in some 

 cases, even gravelly nature, they all yield by levigation a 

 considerable number of silicious Infusoria, which in variety 

 and abundance exceed those found in the deep soundings. 



Sth. None of the soundings present anything resembling 

 the vast accumulations of Infusoria which occur in the miocene 

 infusorial marls of Virginia and Maryland : and, indeed, I 

 have never found, even in estuaries, any recent deposit at all 

 resembling the fossil ones, in abundance and variety of species, 

 with the exception of the mud of a small creek opening into 

 the Atlantic, near Rockaway, Long Island. 



9th. The occurrence of the pebble of limestone with encrinal 

 plates in the gravel of F., No. 10, SE. of Little Egg Harbour, 

 is of some interest, as the nearest beds from which it could 

 have come are the Silurian formations of Pennsylvania, or 

 northern New Jersey. It indicates a transportation of drift 

 to a considerable distance sea-ward. 



lO^A. In addition to the quartzose grains in the soundings, 

 fragments of felspar and hornblende (recognizable under the 

 microscope by their cleavage planes and colour) are found. 

 The quartz, however, predominates, its grains being sharp 

 and angular in the deep soundings, and often rounded or even 

 polished in the shallow one^.— ^American Journal of Science 

 and Arts, vol. xii., 2d Series, No. 34, p. 132. 



Total Eclipse of the Sun, July 28, 1851. By J. W. GoOD, 

 Esq., Elsinore. Communicated by the Author through 

 Prof. Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland. 



Being a resident of Elsinore, and consequently very near 

 the southern boundary of the shadow, I determined on going 

 within the same, and accordingly went over to Sweden the 

 28th, at noon, directing my course east of the town of Hel- 

 singburg ; and when arrived at about five English miles dis- 

 tance from that town, I fixed upon the village of Kropp as a 

 convenient spot to observe the eclipse from, being an elevated 

 position ; and accordingly aiTanged my apparatus in the 

 church-yard, from which spot the surrounding country, which 

 was very flat, was visible to a great distance. 



