402 FOSSIL REMAINS IN GEORGIA, 



mous oyster-shells, extending from Nelson's ferry on the 

 Santee, southwest to the Three Runs on the Savannah 

 river. 







Georgia. 



From the information of General David Meriweather ? 

 I learn valuable particulars concerning a remarkable 

 body of sea shells, now existing in the internal parts of 

 Georgia. Of a number of them I possess specimens. 



" The shell banks, as they are termed, make their first 

 appearance on the south bank of Savannah river, 

 near the place called White Bluff, about a hundred miles 

 on a straight line from the sea shore, and run about 

 southwest. They are not one entire ridge, but the 

 ground is higher for about six or eight miles in width 

 than it is above or below. On this ridge the shells make 

 their appearance, in many places near the surface, and in 

 others deeper. Not only the oyster-shell is found, but clam 

 shells and a scalloped shell nearly similar to the clam 

 shell. Some of them are large, and appear to be entire; 

 others are cemented together. I think I have seen some 

 of them large enough to contain the foot of a common 

 man. I have seen the shells in different parts of the 

 ridge, for the space of forty miles. They are made use 

 of for lime, but are not supposed to afford a product so 

 good as the common shell lime. I have been informed, 

 that further to the southwest, and a little above the direct 

 course, they get a congeries of shells which is in a rocky 

 form, and affords a better cement. 



"And what is more extraordinary, at some distance 

 above that, there are several quarries of a kind of sile- 

 cious stone, which has a number of all kinds of shell? 



