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to bear on these old rocks, and are connected with 

 the reputations of several eminent men, now de- 

 ceased, we may first refer shortly to the history 

 of the discovery of supposed fossils in the Lauren- 

 tian rocks of Canada. 



Fig. 



i^,.— Nature-print of an eUhed Specimen of Eozoon. 



Showing the lammse, a part of the natural margin, near which passes a diagonal 

 caicite vein, and at the upper right-hand corner, fragmental material with casts of 

 Archaeospherinse. The dark lines represent the chambers filled with serpentine, the 

 white the caicite wall. 



