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“Mr. Schooleraft, in the year 1822, first called attention, through 
0 umns of this Journal,* to these impressions ; the German 
Professor Leonhard, of Heidelberg, discusses the matter ih his 
. ‘ "glean lectures, now in course of republication in this country 
Le by Prof. F, Hall; Dr. Me Bells in his. “ sabes of eatiaeae 
hich they appear ; and a eiiscondant in a recent. number of 
is Journal, calls for information on the same subject. 
These various observations and inquiries, and all. others of a 
_ Bimilar character which have met my eye, expressly refér to a 
* single specimen ;. the only one, it would seem, hitherto discover- 
- ed; namely, a slab of limestone originally found on the western 
bank of the Mississippi river at St. Louis, quarried for Mr. Fred- 
erick Rapp in the year 1819, and by him removed to the German 
settlement of Harmony in Indiana, where it became a frequent 
object of visit and examination among curious travellers. There 
Schoolcraft saw and described it; his article, above referred to, 
(and from which Mantell tells ke he derives his information,) 
commences thus: 
“I send you a drawing eb two curious prints of the hiatal 
in limestone rock, observed by me last summer at Harmony 
the Wabash, together with a letter of. Colonel Benton on the 
same subject. The slab containing these impressions, was origi- 
nally quarried on the west bank of the Mississippi river at St. 
Res and belongs to the older flcetz range of limestone, which 
that country to a very great extent.” Leonhard, asa 
‘oad by his editor reming® ne, ee pa bisecig amen; \c to 
the article here quoted, and of course to e 
That specimen is now in my possession ; and inasmuch as it 
has thus attracted the observation even of lwvices, geologists, and 
has given rise to not a little discussion and contrariety of opinion 
among scientific men, I feel called on to contribute what infor- 
tation I possess relative to its history and description; more es- 
’ pecially as I have recently obtained evidence sufficiently conclu- 
sive touching its precise geological character. 
¥ he best information I can furnish in regard to the exact spot 
ig ae rs eae and the cironepeiaetes by which it came © 
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