366 Severity of Cold at Plattsburgh. 
List of organic remains and accompanying rocks, contained 
in a box forwarded to Professor Silliman * Edward 
‘Hitchcock. 
bi Pudding’ stone gorhape grauwacke slate, obtained 
bette the bottom of Connecticut. river, Whitmore’s Ferry, 
Sunderland, Mass. 
2. Slate lying immediately above No. 1, commencing at 
the surface of the river and extending upwards eh ten feet, 
a of 
Same rock containing another species of fish. 
a Same rock , fish impressions, two fish lying across each 
ot. 
5. Fish penne same slate rock. 
6. Fish impression 
ts aewe remains in same slate: 
8. 
do. 
9. Specimen of a reddish slag two hundred feet above 
— do. “brown slate three. hundred feet above the 
wchgge Pie erie re lore do. with 
a vegetable or animal telic penetrating the sgeandins. ; 
12. Vegetable remains on the same general forn en 
13. Slate three hundred feet above the fish pecan: 
she 
Ul. 
sae panicles: information will be found in the labels. 
10. Severity of cold at Platsburgh* on ie Chenplatt 
Extract of a leter to the Editor, dated Saitek 17, 1821, from Dr, Lyman 
Foot, surgeon in the United States Army. 
Tt is now snowing violently and has been ttle 8 for 
thirty ax, hours ; . the inhabitants here call it the 
ial stor The weather has been very cold at this place, 
# the last winter. The lake Champlain is now passa- 
le ice in every direction; I have seen ice cut out of 
the lake this winter, which I should judge to be three feet 
ae ermometer on the 25th of January last, at 
@ stood 23° below 0. Notwithstanding. the intense 
we do not suffer so much as you would natural 
ae, 
* Lat. 44 42° N. 
