298 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
rhood i is not a little peared) by the circumstance of its being the 
only instance, as I believe, in which forms of this genus have bee nol 
anywhere on the so Barrande after speaking of its restriction to 
Protozoic strata in Bohemia, Sweden, Wales, &c., has the following ob- 
lani. The first of these is known to be a Lichas and we know nothing of 
the other The care with which Hall has described the Trilobites of the 
Lower Silurian rocks of the country in question is sufficient proof that, he 
had not discovered any trace of Paradoxides at the time of ee 
the first volume of the Paleontology of N.Y.” I may add to this, 
in no subsequent publication have IT seen any reference to the finding 
fossils of this genus in the rocks of this continent ‘ 
_ The occurrence of well preserved fossils armong rocks so highly a’ altered ; 
so contiguous to great igneous masses as are the fossiliferous slates ee 
Gitte cy, may well encourage us to make careful search in othe Ee ‘ 
Eastern New England, where heretofore such an n exploration would hav 
been deemed useless, Although we cannot hope to build up th a 
gical column of New England from the Protozoic base just established we. . 
the carboniferous rocks, supposing all the intervening formations to 
represented in this region, we may at least succeed in determining by 
eat hereafter discovered some of the principal stages in its structure, 
us relate its strata definitely to the great Paleozoic divisions. ot | 
Pepale ‘hian Geology. 
4. Hailstorm in Guilford County, me ms —On the 9th of June, 1856.4 
ae of unusual violence passed over a portion of Guilford County, 
N.C. An observer at Hillsdale in ia county, gives the flow dew. 
scription. “The cloud came u 3 e sto’ 2 
began with rain, thunder and lightning. In a few minutes hailstones of 
been so much rain and that a very warm one. The weather wa 
very hot, and there was no change of temperature during the w RE 
lowing. This hailstone was a perfect globe. Others measured as lange 
in one etn. but they were flat.” 
e gr unds around us were so completely covered — leaves and 
jaa of trees from the oak grove in which we were, t we had little { 
chance to know what actually fell about us, A mile ie the storm = 
was still more severe. The trees have a strong appearance of winter, and 
ass, beaten, The storm pesto ss about fifteen miles in one direction — 
nd five or six in the other. The hail fell in lines, a field here — : 
we u there being destroyed, while intermediate ones — left uni : 
uaii Lad a strong flavor of’ turpentine. be is 
eae testing it at different and distant localiti 
