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imperfect seams of black chert or flint. This range is remarkable 

 for its fissures and caves, one of which, more than 1500 feet long, 

 situated in the town of Bethlehem, is minutely described by the author. 

 \v'ithin this cavern is a pool of water, along which one of the attend- 

 ants paddled himself in a small skiff, to the distance of 800 feet, in 

 u course parallel to that pursued by the author, and separated by a 

 screen of natural pilasters with occasional openings ; this pool forms 

 the head of a rivulet about one third of a mile from the entrance of 

 the cave. — The author was unsuccessful in his endeavours to discover 

 bones within the cavern, though it abounds in diluvial matter, which 

 in some places presents a section of at least 7 feet in height. — There 

 is another cave in the same neighbourhood, said to be still more ex- 

 tensive, which he proposes to explore. — No regular search for bones 

 has yet been made in the caves of the United States. The only fossil 

 bones hitherto found in any cave in that country, are those of the 

 megalonyx, although the bones of the megatherium, elephant, mas- 

 todon, ox and horse, have been discovered in other situations: — but 

 so little attention has been paid to the circumstances under which 

 they occurred, that it is impossible to decide whether they were lodged 

 in alluvial or diluvial deposits. In the author's opinion no fossil re- 

 mains of the hyaena, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, or tiger, have 

 ever yet been found in the United States. 



A letter was read, addressed to Dr. Fitton, President of the Geo- 

 logical Society, by Samuel ^Voodward, Esq., respecting some re- 

 markable fossil remains found near Cromer, in Norfolk. 



The author notices the limited extent of the marine formation of 

 Eastern Norfolk, and is of opinion that its rejectamenta may point 

 out the boundary of a former sea in that district. 



The marine remains denominated Crag are found at Cromer, and 

 westward of that town, at Coltishail, and around Norwich. To the 

 eastward of these situations, instead of marine shells, a layer of lig- 

 neous and mammalian remains is found reposing on the chalk. — 

 The author considers that a line drawn from Cromer, or a little east 

 of it, and i)assing in a south-east direction towards Lake Lothing by 

 Lowestoff, will very nearly describe the course of the antediluvian 

 shore ; — to the eastward of which, immense numbers of the fossil re- 

 mains of the elephant, horse, deer, &c. mingled with the trunks, 

 branches and leaves of trees, have been found, even to the distance 

 of 20 miles out at sea ; and on the Knole-sand the tusk of a Mam- 

 moth (drawings of which are annexed to the letter) was found in the 

 year 1826, resembling those recently brought to England from 

 Behring's Straits. 



XXII. Litelligefice atid Miscellaneous Articles. 



COMMEMORATION OF RAY. 



THE proposal for employing the occasion of the second centenary 

 of the Birthday of the illustrious John Ray*, which happened on 



lay 

 * See Phil. Mag. and Annals, N.S. vol. iv. p. 37J). 



the 



