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_ Remains: 
These are very rare in our old <0 enialelonnt 1 found, 
however, in Deerfield mo eepemiaonn —— that 
belong to the petrifacta artin; t a perfect 
substitation of Sie grained. sandstone. for: the: 
substance. I found only fragments, about four or five inches 
long, and they ee to belong to the genus phytolite of 
Gmelin’s Linnaean System, and to the species lignite. 
They are a third of an inch in diameter, and a little flat- 
tened ; and seem to agree with Professor Eaton’s descrip- 
tion of certain petrifactions found in red sandstone on the 
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taof Martin, and, without t muc uch doubt, to the 
thus of Gmelin. The animal must have been Sta fire 
feet in length, and lay horizontally in the rock, eighteen 
feet below its top, and twenty-three below the surface of 
the ground. The tail bone,as Dr. Porter, who lives near 
the spot, informed me, projected beyond the general mass 
containing the body of the skeleton, about eighteen inches 
m a curvi linean 1 direction. This, of which that gentleman 
gave me a specimen, was easily di : y its nu- 
merous articulations. | he bones 
e appearance er presented 
when » 
hon yoy Siete ae e Bines were found, is decided]; 
the old red sandstone. ees exactly with that po 4 
as it exists at NeW Haveo: and to: the distance of one —, 
dred miles north from ‘that town. The rock 
bones is a little coarser than the finest varieties of this 
and in the rock gel ee bones, was found some 
wlon “Whatever doubt I had had 
egard to some other pabictiol! of rock in that vicin 
ty, being = real old red sandstone, I could have no 
doubt in cipal to this, after examining it. 
