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ceous slate which lies on the boundary of Quincy and Braintree, about 
ten miles south of Boston, and to my great surprise and delight 1 tound 
~ dallasting material for wharves, but until now the locality has remained 
lying at various levels in the strata. So far as I have yet explored the 
rock, they belong chiefly if not altogether to one species, which on the 
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incy specimens. 
. In this connection I find in Barrande a remark which, at the same time 
___ that it is historically curious, has an interesting bearing on the specific 
affinities of our fossil. e observes, “ We see in ditferent collections, 
especially in that of the School of Mines and the British Museum, under 
_ the name of Paradoxides Harlani, from the United States, a cast of a 
Trilobite, which appears to us to be identical with P. spinosus of great 
_ ‘Size, such as found at Skrey in Bohemia.” : . 
_ It thus appears that the vagrant Par. Harlani, so long an obscure exile 
2 has at last been restored to its native seat, to t e@ a conspicuyus place 
In the most ancient dynasty of living forms belonging to the geology of 
England. 
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