186 Intelligence and Miscellanies. — Domestic. 
the two great Continents of the old and the new world, (as 
they are called.) Ihave determined at once to direct to 
ou the transcript in question from Professor Buckland’s 
beter to me which is as follows. 
COPY. 
‘‘f lately received a very valuable box of specimens col- 
lected by Major Delafield from the Lakes of North Ameri- 
ca; chiefly lime stone, full of organic remains ; and both 
stone and shells so precisely similar to those of the transition 
limestone of Dudley and Longhope, that it is quite impossi- 
ble to distinguish them. Octhoceratite, Chain cord En- 
crinites, Terebratulites, (No. 42. pl. 13. vol. 2, of Parkin- 
son’s Organic Remains,) and millions of minute and almost 
microscopic millepores crowd all these specimens, and 
prove decidedly the masses whence they are taken to be 
the transition lime stone of England. 
“ Similar specimens were sent to London by Lieut. 
Franklin from Cu bets House, where he quartered last 
winter, in his way to the Copper mine River ; and by Cap- 
tain Perry on hiss new aidan, within. Bacrow’ s Straits. 
= "The s same limestone, containing the same shells, occurs 
largely i in Sicien, and the Islands of Oland, Gothland, and 
Bankolm, and in the country round Petersburgh ; there 
and in England, the rock is characterized by containing al- 
so the Dudtey fossil, and trilobite, of which no specimen is 
sent in the as set (only 15) which I received from the 
American Lake 
o doubt, hcwceee it will be found there. Thus the 
transition limestone assumes an immense importance in thus 
extending (with precisely the same features) from the old 
to the new world, under nearly the same parallels of lati- 
tude, and RBERDS, at such great distances the same or- 
ganic remains ! e specimens sent, were chiefly from 
compere Islands, and Thessolar iceland, on Lake Hu- 
Mr. Buckland adds in his letter, from which the foregoing 
is an accurate copy, ‘* Perhaps e above circumstances 
tig t Professor Silliman, for his ee, which I ee may 
be coutinued as ably as itis begun.” 
