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NAMES. 



Illsenus Centaurus, 

 Centrotus, 

 Laticauda 



Ampyx Nasutus, 

 Olenus Bucephalus, 

 Agnostus Pisciformis, 

 Isotelus Gigas, 

 Planus, 



Genera and Species not fully determined. 



Trilobites Cephaleurya, 

 Simla, 

 Granulata, 



Bilobites Lunulata, 

 Lobata, 



Rafinesque, 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



United States. 

 United States. 

 United States. 

 United States. 

 United States. 



From the short descriptions given by Professor 

 Rafinesque of the five last mentioned fossils, I con- 

 clude that they belong to the genus Calymene of 

 Brongniart. 



The study of the trilobites naturally leads to the 

 consideration of those beings which appear to have 

 inhabited our earth previous to the creation of man. 

 Every one knows that the sceptical naturalist has 

 drawn from these vestiges of organic life, an argu- 

 ment contradictory to the Mosaic account of the his- 

 tory of the world, and though every cavil of the least 

 importance, urged against the truth of the sacred 

 historian, has been triumphantly confuted, still, the 

 geological sciolist boldly impugns his veracity, when- 

 ever any new facts in his science can be distorted to 



