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of the dopth of its jaw. It is farther known a« Bnr"nliit — 

 northern. I heliove its remains were found in New London. 

 I have seen an<l exnnnnod thorn in the Museum of the Amorican 

 Academy of Natural S<;ionce8, l^hilaih-lphia. The relic is its 

 lower jaw and some of its fonnitlahlo teeth. A very good pic- 

 ture of it by Loidy, with description, is in our Provincial 

 Museum. It occupies a place amonjij the Dinosaurs — the 

 teirible saurians, or lizards. Other remains of this race aio 

 the tracks in the Gninecticut sandstones in the Museum of the 

 Iioston Natural History Society. They were formerly con- 

 sidered to be the footprints of gigantic birds. From the now 

 known characters of the Dinosaurs, which walked generally 

 erect as bij^eds, these trucks are Ijelieved to be reptilian — 

 Dinosaurian. 



We would now proceed to the South-west of England. 

 {Vile Table at the end of the volume.) Sailing up the Bristol 

 Channel wo come to the mouth of the river Severn and land 

 on the western extremity of the M<'ndip Hills. We then 

 proceed eastward along these hills until we reach the towns of 

 Frome and Shepton-Mallet. The Mountain or Lower Carbonifer- 

 ous limestones largely enter into the constitution of the Hills 

 associated with these. Succeeding, we have the Triassic and the 

 Liassic formations, or Prince Edward Island formation and 

 another succeeding it called the Liassic. Jurassic is another 

 name given to it. Lias is equivalent to Layers (of rock). 

 Jurassic is from the Juras (Alps) where it is largely developed. 

 In tlie region we are now investigating there seems to be 

 intermediate betweeti the Lias proper and the Keupor division 

 of the Triassic— a series called " Rhaetic." A part of this is 

 called the White Lias. On the Continent it is called Ivfra-lian. 

 We now have established Geological relations between the 

 "Old Country" and the "New." Now for a search in the 

 cemeteries. In the first layer of the Lower or Hlue Lias, which 

 comes next to the White Lias, th ^re are no fossils ; in the next 

 bottom Blue beds, finely lamin. ted, are (1) Insect-limestone, 

 then marl ; (2) Insect-limestone, marl ; (3) Insect-limestone, 

 three more thin layers, close grained ; (4) Insect-limestone, 

 marl ; (5) Insect-limestone. This indicates insect life in great 



