trix, and attached to its column ; 
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and it is rare that any specimen is found more perfect than the one 
here represented. It is reported that in 1774, the emperor of Ger- 
many offered one hundred dollars for ‘a stone lily free from its ma- 
” and it does not appear that such 
an one was ever furnished. Mr. John S. Bonny, late of Schoharie, 
now of this city, who has acquired much celebrity for his mineral- 
ogical researches in Schoharie Co., in the spring of 1935, obtained 
the lily in question. Several days were spent in blasting and break- 
ing rocks, before he discovered it. Mr. B. says he has traced the 
stems of these lilies the distance of 20 feet. All the other specimens 
he has been enabled to procure are imperfect, and consist of detach- 
ed pieces. 
Mr. Bonny has furnished us with the following description of their 
locality. 
“It is situated about one quarter of a mile east of the Schoharie 
court house in a perpendicular ledge of rocks, about 50 feet high. 
The different strata occur in the following order. 
Ist stratum, about thirty feet—shell limerock, containing trilobites 
of the Asaphus variety, the Orthocera, Spirifer and Terebratula of 
different varieties. 
2nd stratum, two feet—in the center of this stratum is a layer of 
clay slate, one inch thick, in which is found the most perfect Lily ; 
it also contains the stag-horn encrinite, trilobites and terebratula. 
3d stratum, eight feet—stratified limerock containing trilobites, 
species of the echinus, flustra, and orthocera. 
4th stratum, ten feet—stratified limerock, containing species of 
the echinus and flustra. 
5th stratum, ten feet—lias contains all the strontianite localities 
discovered. by myself; carbonate and sulphate of strontian, barry 
strontianite of Traill. 
4. Extracts from an account of a visit to Iceland, by M. Eugene 
Robert.—The siliceous concretions formed by the geysers of Ice- 
land, cover an extent of four leagues in length, throughout which 
there are numerous traces of the ancient geysers. We have hence 
been enabled to observe this singular formation under all its different 
forms ; passing by insensible shades from that of a loose and friable 
character, the result of a rapid deposition, to the most compact and 
transparent. We have not only observed impressions of the leaves 
of the birch tree, of Equiseta and various grasses, but the trunks of 
