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in Virginia, and ultimately with the south mountain on 

 the Atlantic side of the Shenandoah. 



Thus the second, or outer barrier, embraced a large 

 extent of country, reaching from Canada to Virginia. 



The Breaches made about fifty miles north of New* York City. 



A geologist finds traces of three openings for the im- 

 prisoned waters ; one through the eastern barrier, and 

 discharging near the boundary of New-York and Con- 

 necticut, into Long-Island sound ; another through the 

 valley called the Clove, where the Ramapaugh river now 

 runs ; and the third through the Highlands, where the 

 Hudson to this day glides along. Through these several 

 passages, the country from the Highlands to Glens' Falls 

 and the Little Falls of the Mohawk, in length, and from 

 the Shawangunk mountains to the Taconick, in breadth, 

 may be supposed to-have been drained. 



Let the explorer of the scene behold the fossil and or- 

 ganic remains which have thus been laid open to inspec- 

 tion. 



At Palatine, near the place where the Canajoharie 

 Creek joins the Mohawk, the limestone rocks abound 

 with sea-shells> chiefly, if not altogether, of pectens, ano- 

 mias, and other bivalve species. 



Here I mention the fossils of Cherry Valley, situated 

 between lake Otsego and Canajoharie, south of the 

 Mohawk. Cadwallader D. Colderi, Esquire, represents, 

 on the authority of Mr. Morse, that petrifactions are 

 very frequent. They consist of " marine shells, horns of 



