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depth from the surface was 21 feet 9 inches, and the discovery was 
made by Mr. D. McLeod of French river, New London, when digging 
a well, ; 
“The sandstone in question belongs to a formation which occupies 
nearly the whole of Prince Edward Isiand, generally dipping at a small 
angle to the northward. It includes thin beds of coarse, concretionary 
limestone, and at the southern side of the rete where the oldest beds 
of a formation x there are beds of etd clay or soft shale, and 
ee | ip ae te 
case the red sandstones which conformably overlie them will be equiv- 
alent to the New Red of western Nova Scotia and Connecticut, and 
robably Triassic or Permian. The present specimen is the first ani- 
Red Sada tones Sot some parts of Nova Seer, associated with cyberia 
and marine limestones, which were formerly confounded with the New 
. See a eg the writer in Proc. of Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., ii, 
272; and Papers in Journal of London pra Society, iv, 50.” 
This jaapants is ‘iene’ by a fine plate 
1V. Astronomy. 
1. Elements of Polymnia, (33) (Compt. Rend., , p- 1019).— 
The elements of this planet given below were cape by Mr. Bruhns 
from the observations at Paris, Oct. 28, and at Berlin, Nov. 3 and 9. 
Epoch ad 0-0 M. T. Berlin. 
Mean anomaly, - 10° 26’ 8” -5 
Long. pablaises . é - 22 25 58 -4) Mn. Eqnx. 
- ode, - - - lin 2 2 18550. 
. ni 
fnicfinations : - -- 1 22 20.6 
Angle of exconticiy, - - 12 58 2-1 
Mean daily motio - pea ile 235 
se semi-axis hate! 376356 
nts of Seng hile iets (29) (oy Rend., t. 39, p. 1060.)— ¢ 
Ms. “Yvon Villars u has computed a set of —— of this planet ) 
making use of all the observations collected during its appearance. 
Epoch 1854, itil 0-0 M. T. Paris. 
Mean anomaly, - 123° 51’ 0-85 
Long. vesietany Ret isd eel EY BS } Mo. Eqnx. — 
Inclina slots senclgasiadesit - 6 7 41-08 
_ Angle (sin = excen.), - af ges eth AB -SE IG 
Mean ti motion, ee te 86948241 
_ Semi-axis -  2°5536647 
Period of scleeal aapilelion: ils ee 4-y's080810 
Fon Koco ce hrm an esi has been computed for 
la d published in the Compt. Rend., Rend., tome 40, p. 244. 
