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buried at a country church. Another extract referred to the 

 Reverends Oliver and Ezekiel Cant, two Scotch clergymen, 

 who preached with such a peculiar voice and manner as to 

 give their names — Caxt — to all speaking of the same kind. 



Mr. Higgtnson exhibited a large and dense Oyster in a 

 fossil state. It was found on the summit of a Patagonian 

 mountain, 500 feet high and 50 miles inland; also a Turbi- 

 nella Shell, covered with madrepore. The specimen was found 

 in deep water, and the animal was alive when discovered. 



Mr. Higginsox presented both specimens to the museum. 



Mr. M' Andrew had seen a shell of the species rotularia, 

 found on the Andes, 18,000 feet above the level of the sea. 



Mr. Cunnixgham exhibited a cast of some impressions 

 found on a stone taken from the west side of Storeton Hill : 

 the original could not be procured. At one part there were 

 impressions of two feet, each consisting of a sort of boss or 

 heel with three long slender toes, probably webbed ; at 

 another, were impressions of a foot with three short toes, but 

 without a heel ; at another, there were marks which led to 

 the belief that the foot had been cased in a shell ; at another, 

 an impression left, it was supposed, by a medusa.* 



Mr. Yates exhibited the actual returns made and signed by 

 the Justices of the Prescot division of the county of Lancaster, 

 to an order of Ins Majesty's Privy Council, A J). 1711- : which 

 order enjoined the summoning of all Papists, or reputed 

 Papists, to take the oaths of allegiance, abjuration, and supre- 

 macy. These returns are dated 80th March, 1744, a period 

 when it was apprehended that the Chevalier St. George was 

 meditating a descent upon this country, which he carried into 

 effect the following year. The names of about 250 indivi- 

 duals (classed in their different townships) are given, all of 

 whom had been served with summonses to appear before the 

 Justices and take the oaths. The whole of them had neglected 

 or refused, with the exception of five. 



* Lithographed copies were ordered to be prepared, which Mr. Pidof.on kindly 

 consented to execute, and which will be found at the end of the volume. 



