Granger on Zanesville Slate. 5 
countries, that it would easily be mistaken for them. It is 
not named or alluded to in Mr. Dickson’s paper, and it re- 
mains for him to inform the American — rena it is 
a native fm te and if oe from what loca 
Arr. Il aveiee of wagetable: impressions on the Rocks 
connected with the Coal formation of Zanesville, Ohio, 
in a@ letter !to the Lion anon Exenezer oe 
Esq. dated August 18 
se [For the drawings see the rey at 4 end of this Number.] 
e- B. Geist ‘kan. _ will deliver you a gy 
taining drawings, and specimens of vegetable impressio 
collected by Mr. Wm. A. Adams and myself from the rocks 
of this vicinit 
Il] health, will prevent me from giving a very particular 
description of the situation in which they are fou 
is whole — you are aware, is composed 1 of secon- 
ary rocks. - hills rum about two hundred feet above 
the | bed of the sinboges river, which has esidendly éut its 
the other rivers and 
streams in this ¢ ‘country—the tops of the bills from Lake 
Erie to the ee probably being the remains of a once 
tolerably level plain. The drawings and specimens are 
marked a sid nian eh agreeably to the order of the strata 
in which ret were found beginning with the lowest. A. No. 1 
(drawing,) and No. 2. (drawing, and cA Sa fom the bed 
of the river. This stratum is two or three feet in thickness, 
and suiaiine many shells, it. also contains sts > tandle ~ : 
resembles in some measure in appearance a large bod 
cast iron—resting on this is a stratum of aes 
two or three fect in thickness, full of indistinct impressions, 
over which is found a eee _— stone,, from. which are 
taken the specimens markec *, 7 
- From this were taken drastiog: No. 5 of a tacahsped 
leaf Sema inches in length, ve twelve in. width at top— 
arts of the leaf may be seen ecimen No. 2 and 3— 
o. 4, 5 and 6, ie fools hc ws fog oi we suppose 
to bea fern. We have a very fine ‘and mee arenes 
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