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derived from its vicinity to limestone. We were informed that 
the general character of the soil improves on advancing into the 
interior, and.that a broad fertile valley similar to the one which 
accompanies the St. Paul’s Bay River, and with which it i8 
connected by a cross valley, also accompanies the Mal-Bay 
River in rear of the settlement, Walking through the fields at 
the back of Mr. M*‘Nicol’s house, we observed several small 
cone-shaped hillocks from fifteen to twenty feet high composed 
of alluvial soil, which from their form and isolated appearance 
were supposed to be in some way connected with the cause of 
the earthquakes. 
Availing ourselves of the high tide we left this bay, but were 
detained a few hours at its westernmost point by the roughness 
of the river. This interval was occupied in examining the lime- 
stone rock of which the point consists. Like that on the eas- 
tern side of the bay it is one of the oldest of the secondary class, 
and contains numerous organic remains, principally orthocera- 
tites. The weathering of the rock exhibits many longitu- 
dial sections of these fossil multilocular univalves, giving them 
something the appearance of fish-bones for which they have 
been mistaken. Itis well known to those who interest them- 
selves on the subject, that the fossil corallines of the genus 
huronia, of which there are some beautifully correct drawings 
among the plates to the sixth volume of the Geological Tran- 
sactions, bear aremarkable resemblance to vertibra, so much so 
as to have deceived professional men ; of these however we saw 
none. Some of this limestone is of a very siliceous character and 
appears to pass into sandstone ; some again is conglomerated, 
and holds imbedded rounded fragments of white quartz ; in 
this the fossil organic remains appear most to abound. In the 
upper portion of this limestone there is a small cavern into which 
you may descend for a few yards. ‘The sides and roof are in 
many places coated with a white incrustation, having none of 
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