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lasting conclusions of broader import. To these are added such details of 

 stratigraphy as have been obtainable in regions which have suffered consid- 

 erably from crustal disturbances and in some cases are well overgrown with 

 forest. The conclusions derived from the studies bearing upon the broader 

 themes suggested are presented cautiously and with reserve. The regions 

 involved have yet much to reveal before these items of their geological 

 history can be apprehended in their proper perspective. Some of the prop- 

 ositions here discussed have been already presented by the writer [Mus. 

 Bui. 107, 1907 and Koenen'sche Festschrift, 1907] but in this place all details 

 and deductions are brought together for the sake of fulness and logical 

 connection. 



It is the purpose, first, to present in analytical form the faunas of three 

 distinct regions outside of New York State : 



a That of Bellevue or Stewart's cove, near Dalhousie, New Brunswick, 

 involved in the Dalhousie beds of H. M. Ami, 



b That of the much disturbed arenaceous shales of northern-central 

 Maine extending in a belt across Somerset and Piscataquis counties in a 

 northeast-southwest direction but probably forming no present or ancient 

 direct connection with the Chapman sandstone of Aroostook county at the 

 north. To these beds the term Moose River sandstone, introduced by H. S. 

 Williams, is applied. 



c That of the isolated outcrops in Aroostook county in northeastern 

 Maine, represented in the localities of Edmunds Hill and the Presque Isle 

 stream in the Chapman Plantation ; the Chapman sandstone of Professor 

 Williams. 



These accounts are supplemented by some additional considerations of 

 the Port Ewen and Oriskany faunas in New York. 



