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Aiitigonish County, scales of like colour occur in the bituminous 

 shales. At rforton IJiuff, Kings County, the black shales have 

 also black ganoid scales. Here I fonu«l the right side of a 

 lower jaw, 1^ inch in length, with 4 conical teeth. Each 

 of these rises, about the 20th of an inch, above -the jaw. 

 This is much larger than 'the jaw oi ^ pahieoniscus. The IJony 

 I'ike, of the Canadian Lakes, of which wo had several line 

 specimens at the Fisheries Exhibition, is a modern representa- 

 tive of the Ganoid Fishes. 



10. In the year .1859 the late Dr. Forrester and I 

 •examined the marvellous section of the Carboniferous forma- 

 tion on the South Joggins Shore, Cumberland County. We 

 •admired its grandeur and phenomena of structure — with ita 

 remains of ancietit vegetation, its coal seams and fossil trees, S>^ 

 'illaria, Lepido hndrri, Oalamodendra, Sfifjmaria and Calamites 

 •exposed in a beautiful and instructive manner by the action of 

 the great tides of the Bay of Fundy, Certain coal looking 

 'beds were foand to be composed of small imvias^'ils (anthracoHiaJ 

 and minute crustaceans (It'perdUia ) We proceeded to collect 

 iportable specimens from this interesting locality. In Acadian 

 Geolofjy we found an admirable and detailed account of the 

 section. The occurrence of a reptile found by Lyell and 

 Dan-son in 1849 was regarded as of special interest, and 

 Teptilian remains were sought for. As we afterwards found we 

 ■were on the wrong track and much below anything but foofc- 

 .prints, the sepulchres being in newer strata or beds and not 

 scattered aroun<l, but deposited in a sort ot uiiiS (sigillaria). On 

 sitting down to rest on rocks at some distance apart, I observed 

 •lying before me a piece of black Icperditia shale wif,h something 

 shining on its side. With the aid of my knife I exposed a 

 large conical tooth of reptilian aspect. We then proceeded 

 •onward, and came to a point where we found the remains of a 

 Sigillarm (tree-) lying prostrate, having fallen ^.om the cliff. 

 In this I observed vegetable debris with a carpolite — fossil 

 nut — what is called a trigowKarpum. I was Sivtisfied with 

 my success. I afterwards found that the tooth was of a 

 ganoid fish, Rhizodus, and that the Sigillaria having the nut 



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