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I have one slab four or five inches thick, containing two footprints of a 
bird, which I split into five layers, the impression being distinct in eac 
impression, the mud having been'so’ 
soft as to close up, leaving no des | 
pression, while the lower slab. 
I have spent many days the past » 
season searching for these interest- 
ing relics of olden time. I have | 
traversed the valley from the north 
line ‘of this’ state Socnod assachusetts)” | 
ut, and” 
on the bank of Connecticut River, 
near the mouth of Fall River, and 
after seven oreight days labor, I 
in obtaining two or three 
hindred foot prints of various birds 
and quadrupeds, many of them 
qua 8, d 
one-half,) you will see that this 
is a walking, and not a leaping, 
} sm the fore feet are’ very smal 
ie abese: ser to the hind 
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‘the 
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impression’ of avery long heel, (of 
it may be a part of the leg’;) eee 
itis notas deep as the toés, it 
deepest at the part rare and oe 
Pt Gold in Canada.—I hay é: had an lately of seeing 
he masses of gold found in the valley of onoraniy Mr. Charles 
De Léry, the proprietor of the seigniory on which the precious metal is 
