284 ‘ Scientific Intelligence. 
Topographical Assistant. 392 pages, large 8vo.—The geological survey 
of Kentucky, as this second report evinces, is carried forward with energy 
and ability, and with important results to the State. The general report 
by D i 
The Falls of the Ohio are a noted locality for fossil a The follow- 
ing is given as a section of the rocks at that place, commencing tf 
with the Devonian black slate, a well known horizon in the west. 
1. Black bituminous slate or shale. 
2. Upper crinoidal, shell, i coralline nee consisting of 
a, White o r yellowish-white earthy fractured layers, containing vast 
numbers of Crinoids (Actinocrinus abnormis, most common), & 
Favosite, a large Leptana, and Atrypa prisca 
6. Middle layers; containing a few cate 
c. Lower layers; containing many Cystiphylla, a Syringopora, and 
on Corn laid remains of fishes, st called the Upper Fish bed, 
3. Bidesulic limestone, an bi y magnesian limestone; contains 
Atrypa prisca, a Spirifer, &e. Thickness 21 feet and less 
4. Lower Site! esas and coralline limestones ; consisting in a 
great measure of comminuted remains of Crinoids, and conta ining Spur 
ifer Sather eeu Atrypa prisca, a Leptena near euglypha, and remains 
5. Olivan ites Seal thickness 6 inches net the mill on the south side 
of the mg 6 to 7 feet on "Fourteen Mile eek. 
ical masses of Stro matopora and a fercihide 3 to 5 feet thick; next, the 
Lower Fish Beds, a limestone stratum 19 feet thick, containing 4 Jar, 
and. beautiful species of undescribed Turbo, a large Mi i 
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basaltica, sometimes as white as milk, Favosites polymor 
b. Black coralline layers, being almost a complete mass of oun 
pce. including C. ystiphylla, Favosites cornigera, Zaphren 
lea, Syringopora, e j 
These 1 Det onian beds rest naar an Upper Silurian stratum containing 
the a Coral (Catenipora). 
er sections are given and much important detail. almost 
The chemical report of Dr. Robert Peter, exhibits a “_ and stele 
incredible amount of research. 206 analyses of i “ae salts, 
43 of soils, 31 of limestones, 30 of coals, 16 of mineral tell 
ers of rocks and ores. In the analyses of coals, the author 
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