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which must have flowed into Lake Ontario. To the east of this bar is 
Burlington Bay, the head of Lake Ontario, from which it is separated 
by a similar bar through which a canal is cut into the lake, and which 
bank I am informed is still rising. To the west are the Dundas marsh- 
es, which find their exit into Burlington Bay round the point of Bur- 
lington Heights, and through which the Desjardin Canal is carried. 
Behind Dundas, running east and west, is a long, deep and wide valley 
down which valley doubtless once flowed a large yo Z 
ing a coffer-dam near this spot for the foundation of a bridge 
where the railroad will cross the Desjardin Canal, were found, deep in 
the silt, the scapular and some fragments of the bones of the extremi- 
ties of an herbivorous animal about the size of a fallow-deer. 
V.-AsTronomy. 
1. The Nineteenth Asteroid.—The planet discovered on the 22d of 
ae 1852, by Mr. J. R. Hind of London, has been named Fortuna. 
of this n 
one? Rimker from the Hamburg observations of September.30, Oc- 
' Epoch 1852, November 0, m. t. Berlin. 
Mean longitude, Sn Sie i. 3 
tude of perihelion, : 94 32 39 ‘7 } Mean Equinox 
“ - ® asc. node, .. 207 8 47°6§ 1853, Jan. 0. 
40 28° 
Inclination, : : : 0 1 
Angle of excentricity, ae SAS 
Log. of semi-axis major, _. 0-3890493 
“mean daily motion, . 2-9664326 
Hi New Planets— Twenty-first Asteroid, (Astr. Jour., No. 52.)—At 
"lS on the 15th of November, 1852, another planet, which has been 
h 
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he of the 9:10 magnitude. Mr. G. Rimker has computed the fol- 
ae elements, from observations made at Paris, November 18, and 
mburg, November 28 and December 3. 
Epoch 1852, December 0-0. Berlin m. t. 
Mean longitude 61? 29 23" 
Long. of een : i 
ng-of perihelion, . 809 53 19 ; . 3 
ae a Z 78 38 48 “4 Mean Equinox 1853-0. 
Melioation, = | * 3 19° 49-7 
ise ofexcentricity, . 19 51 55:2 
g. Of semi-axis major, 0-4157699 
mean daily motion,  2°9263517 
Nove:ttemty-second Asteroid, (Astr. Jour., No. 52.)—On the 16th of 
*vember, 1852, Mr. J. R. Hind discovered a new planet which he 
