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On the isliind of Aiiticosti Messrs. Hyatt, Verrill and 

 Slialer found Saxiinra ardicn in clay at an elevation of 

 fifteen ftict al)()ve the level of the sea. 



The late Mr. Richardson of the (reoloi^neal Survey, to 

 whom we owe most of our knowledife of the ^'oology of 

 Anticosti, had })reviously noticed, in his ]io})()rt for l(S57, 

 the occurrence of travelled boulders and of beds of clay, 

 holding rounded fragments of limestone, and forming 

 clill's sixty to seventy feet high, but makes no mention of 

 any pleistocene fossils. In l.StS5 the island was visited by 

 Lt.-Col. (Jrant, of Hamilton, who made interesting collec- 

 tions, which he kindly presented to the I'eter liedpath 

 Museum of Mcdill University.* 



The following are extracts from a letter of Col. (}rant, 

 referring to the localities of the fossils and the mode of 

 their occurrence : 



" The ])(jst-tertiary shells were first noticed in patches 

 of blue clay in the south-west of Anticosti, in the l,)ed of 

 iJecscia river, close to its mouth. When first seen, I 

 thought it ])robal)lc that they had been washed in by a 

 higli tide from the (Julf, but, on proceeding a short 

 distance up stream, 1 found the clay and shells in situ, 

 ca])ped by a considerable thickness of drift, boulders, etc., 

 in the river bank. Tiie shells ap{)eared to be unusually 

 large. I collected a considerable numlier. Many got 

 subse(piently Jjroken iu rougii weather. 



" The pleistocene clay (Leda clay), occurs also in the 

 bank and bed of Chaloupe river, and it is exposed along 

 the cliii' within a few miles west of the South-west point 



* Notes on Pleistocone Fossils from Anticosti, by Lt.-Col. C. E. 

 Grant and Sir W. Dawson, Canadian Record of Science, Vol. IL, 18S(i. 



