Jotice of Fossil ‘Trees near Gallipolis, Ohio. 205 
others diagonal. — The flesh of a beautiful white color, some- 
what coarse in its texture, but palatable to the taste. It 
was a male—the two milts Jay Sy satire de and 2? inches 
long—the ductus deferens issuing from the milts, united aud 
opened: by a small hole behind the anns 
AMES W. CLEMENS. 
Arr. II. senensse “, Fossil We near ati? Ohio ; ‘ 
r S.oPiip 
AxBour two miles above Gallipolis, and half amile from the 
Ohio river, is the ation of =e trified trees. They 
are found near the base of a mural Pare) of sandstone 
rock, 50 feet in height, and csonied with earth and trees to 
an elevation of 70 feet. rom foot of the rock, the 
ground gradually descends 30 or 40 feet to the Ohio bottom, 
which is low and swampy near the hill. This descent is prob- 
ably made by the debris and earth rolling down from the 
hill, and_ gradually accumulating for ages, so as to cover ia 
em portion of the sandstone reck below the surface, than 
w appears above. The Ohio river no-doubt once washed - 
‘ie base of the rock, but has gradually changed its channel 
to its _— bed. 
The rock in which the trees are imbedded, is a coarse 
ley and they appear in the face of the rock at differ- 
ent elevations, some near the present surface of the a 
and others. 4 or 5 feet above. They are 7 in number, an 
gh a space ¢ ds in length—som appeoe 
L Poe i : ef . 2. E rata: ieee, a 
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the river, and others i n the opposite. 
came out of the rock otigtely, and others at ane de A ; 
they vary in diameter from 8 to 1S inches. Iam not satisfied 
as to what family of trees see belong, but some of them look 
like elm. They are readily disti guished from the rock in 
which they are imbedded, by t thei “ditt 
sition ; ies color being as i rker, and_ textu re ech 
nacdar t having a reddish brown cast, like iron ore, and so 
hard as to scintillate briskly, when struck with a hammer or 
head of au axe, affording evidence of their silicious composi- 
tion. - The interstices of the laminze, are in some places filled 
with small ae of quartz ; and in others with thin layers 
of stone coal. There is evidently a considerable quantity nas 
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