Geological Society. 453 



In a late number of Jameson's Journal is part of a memoir on the 

 structure of the Valley of Ovelipore* by Mr. Hardie, one of our re- 

 cently elected Fellows. 



This valley had previously been noticed by Captain Dangerfieldf; 

 but Mr. Hardie has been the first to describe a singular Indian for- 

 mation which occurs there, called Kunkur. It is rarely, if ever, stra- 

 tified ; it forms a bed, seldom exceeding a few feet thick, which 

 mantles over the irregularities of the country. It is sometimes im- 

 perfectly oolitic; at others globular, botryoidal or nodular; in some 

 places a compact limestone; in others it resembles chalk : not un- 

 frequently it contains round and angular fragments of rocks. No 

 animal or vegetable remains have been noticed in it. The author 

 carefully distinguishes Kunkur from modern tut'aceous deposits, but 

 assigns to it a similar origin. 



America. — Captain Colquhoun and Mr. Burkart have presented 

 to us a specimen of native iron from Zacatecas, and memoranda 

 on this and similar masses found in Mexico. 



Captain Bayfield has communicated to us a paper on the shores 

 of the River and Gulf of St. Lawrence from the Saguenay to Cape 

 Whittle. The information contained in this memoir completes our 

 knowledge of the north coast of the St. Lawrence^; and from the pre- 

 vious labours of Mr. Green in the district of Montmorency § ; of 

 Lieutenant Ingall in the country bordering the rivers St. Maurice 

 and aux Lievres|| ; of Captain Bonnycastle in Upper Canada ^f; of 

 Dr. Bigsby**, Captain Bayfield +f and Dr. Richardson}}, on the 

 shores of Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron and Superior; and of Dr. 

 Richardson in the overland expeditions to the Arctic Seas, we have a 

 general account of the geological structure of the whole country be- 

 tween the mouths of the Mackenzie and Copper Mine rivers and the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence. The researches made during the expeditions 

 of Captain Ross, Sir Edward Parry and Sir John Franklin, have 

 also given us a general insight into the nature of the formations 

 which constitute a large portion of the shores of the Western 

 Polar Seas. Why should I repress the feeling of patriotic pride 

 which rises within me on contemplating how vast a range of the 

 western continent has thus, in the brief period of a i'ew years, been 

 brought within the pale of our science almost entirely by the ex- 

 ertions of English officers? Great is the gratitude we owe them; 

 yet have their services not been wholly without reward. The 



• The city of Ovelipore is in lat. 24° 25' N. long. 73° 44' E. 



t Sec Sir John Malcolm's Central India. 



I See on the country between the St. Maurice and the Saguenay, 

 Tnms. Quebec Society, vol. ii. p. 21G. On the Saguenay country and St. 

 rani's Bay, ibid. vol. i. p. 79; vol. ii. p. 76. On Quebec, Proceedings Geol. 

 Soc. No. 5, |). ',VJ. 



§ Quebec Trans, vol. i. p. 181. II Ibid. vol. ii. p. 7. 



% lliid. vol. i. p. 62. 



•• Proceedings Geol. Soc. No. .'>, p. 23. Trans. Geol. Soc Scries II. 

 vol. i. p. 175. Journal Royal Institution, vol. nviii. pp. I, 828. 



\\ Quebec Trans, vol. i. p, 1. \\ Appendix, Expedition to Polar Sea*. 



