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and ment tioned to him all the eireumstan 
with which I was r |3 
fossil woo 
is structure ary in fr 
Walnu re dae weighing 6 Ibs. aad 7 Ibs. an 
r was the —— mate 
Nesbit, in * A Laie me that 
rece i 
contain an extraordina 
ber he an 
to me — 
the Mar 
8 
of lime, an 
is To Mr. — 
are due, aud i 
being the chemist who first confirmed m 
that phosphate of lime existed in 
e quantities upon portions of my lan 
‘Towards the end of 
Way (wich whom I was previ- 
e 
friend to ask Prof 
ously erg, memes A if he would undertake the exami- | gic 
of m 
ways ws — to avail 
of he 
8 a new Pera a ion, 
d on the 1 
the 1 portion of d, as I at 
that period believed that the phosphoric 
im the green particles, He subjected the sa 
I had also sent a portion of the same 
o another 
-from this Tda I obtained 
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© 
a most fav 
the important el clue by which we w 
future resea 908 . origin, or — the — 
9 origin, 0 2 ep 
The followin 
— mee — — = 
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tee 
* 
‘Alana, 
ide of iron with 
Eni . * w a Bale lay 
9.1 
with a Thue peal 7,99 — an analysis of 7 rer een sand from sia 
2 as — by M. Berthier, v i 
“Th 46 Protoxids of iron i 21 
e. green sand a s water 2 idl from , 7 
— 0 2 n ye the solubility of th 5 it, 1 = M 
the soil a en, without the a 8 
g k * the | And that à ddieh datecamimnatcoa oa S- 
aapa. . the same rock at ~~ 8 
of ‘Scent the — Phosphate rat ae 
was * ’ * 8 n 1 5 
* heavy sand wy g — — —— esia * 
found to contain 8 per cent. of Silicate of iron. and alumina e. ae 
concentration led to the discovery Water and bituminous matter Pie 
the nity 7 e then * PF 
seid did not exist at all in the} These nodules analysed by M. Berthi cent! 
Las such, but i i N yellow | similar to th 2 2 hich F have = 
readily separable by washing; w ich, after desctibed, dR el ria aie eich be oad 
pielded 8 p 8 phos- — confirms the geben Aii —— 
. 5 H ; a ` s 
8 —— — 
main 3 upwards of 70 per cent. (i isofone of 2 yellow-brown lumps,” made b 
miko een part of the discovery, — er ene leman, al 
Mr. Way me a visit at. Farnha: Sandandelay ... 
whea he kindly, gave me his valuable es Silica colt Bae Poca a artis 
. I had had sunk in the í matter T ETEA 2.40 
aad tno nights u ee e, hee Se < 3 
ploy rst in phosphoric acid 33. 
1 bre = bedd and stay iy in tenting the value of hosphorie acid .» — MRS as 8 
whieh. we found result of Fiorio -ars t . wee vue 9 
our ene a highly r 8 2 
ascertained Pie some of our 
fossils. We now arrived.at 
ere of fo; 
E £ ins, 2 chief of 
not time for of . 4 
es of 30 lbs. weig 5 = ntly N to monites, turrilites, &., fishes’. teeth, and bones of 
Way, which gave the following results. Of tang. 1 when e to Mr. Way for 
small fossils r cent. of the bed were separated eaminatio entirely up in nd 
aching ; 10,000 grs. weight of fossils broken tained, I, imagine, mops 80 to 0 per cent. of Phosphate 
down gave an avera composition of — bol lime. These are not sufficiently. numerous in 
o my land to be dug out cuniary advantage ; bu 
Organ mat a. ae hey may be found elsewhere in large quantities, and I 
o eas ae per think I recollect.a pit a few miles off is neighbour- 
eee uhina 15.92 hood, where, some years, since, I observed them in great | 
*. ination e ea acid 85. 35.60 eee et: These fossils.are extremely hard, like flint ; T 
equal to of Beng 1 27 and in this respect differ from those found in the r ini e l 
8 mth phosphate, green sand, yet they.coneur ing co en ness, which the he water. 
fossil 
ist of 
e perad _ 
runa ; normal sta 
certain ex 
wee ote er 1 — to a mutual 
o matter 2 
experienced analytical canes and 
i 
Professor Way’s analysis of this 
ast 
. is 
y pertiga: Wo had 8 
the N that all, or 
Many of these sizes have a atari an 
- indurated 
= ofa Walnut, which I considered to be comio 
at that time I ha d no mea 
year, attracted my at 
| circumstances, which I could 
> p d. 
nn 
3 o in a gad 
— € 
Should bind eon jecturo pro 
exist, in ames former gee 0- 
ed, 
k, and invariably ‘lies yn Sa found at all) upon 
ilici s here bog as a 
acid, it is sle so far as my o 
me, an unfailing con neomitant of the rich et 
beds. Teis. — developed in any v 
to 5 3 one of. e 
se wi for pa Wan ppop Bue adjoinin 
fields, w hich ar g now x ce 
t has been eut 
r part of the wet 
he 
S | th 
sy deen matter, I shall leave the pe 1 
his 
t 
ure that the 
substance was rich in phosphate of lime, though i it must 
be confessed that it was rather trying to my patienee to 
wait 80 lon, ng for their repor ras 
And thus my vegetabl 
hir me that I was right in my conjecture 
Way my first box of m 
st Py 8 
phate. This fav — Sos rt caused m 
my 3 rehes after} arger quantities af ae 
n found that this stratum was lik 
sae valuable than either o che 
masses, which may be coprolites ; but now that I 
em associated with other fossils, all W 
by more competent judges than 
work on volcanic islands, speaks ‘of * e fishes 
upon coral . W 
nas VO! 
The discovery af these phosphate beds in 2 
sand induced me to extend my i — 
other denden of the ehalk formation, 
e 
Att. 
or 
to a paragraph 
la Beche's “ — 2 — ” in which he 
their intestines. Might these fossils have had a 
8, Ko., w. were afterw am 
2 - 
and, after sifting and washing, o 
cent. of fossils. Whilst the fossils remain n 
fact intimat ne er. Mr. ‘Wayyhor- 
ever, ‘discovered an easy — kajaiehi method Of sep 
ration. 
These mixed fossils, powdered but not dried, gave 
analysis :— 
Sand and alittle clay 43.97 
Wa * A es a awe organic matter and 20 ) 
Soluble lle oe << Sane 
Oxide of iron and alumina 3.35 
poate rey hy 20.80 
42. 48 of bone earth phosphate. 
dame: in ser er with à phosphoric 
aci ae 23.86 
Carbonate of lime a 166 ey 
Magnesia and loss Z pan k ee 
— 
100.00 
e n 
Bhs is to be observed that the analyses give 
se galt, L had collected ye fe 
ters 
ad been in the habit of eolject 
ling a 3 ‘of greyish coloured nodules, abou 
the |F 
b 
the 5 
ing out of water, on. the side ot hil has freg 
psa to meee — have 
neighbourhood over eral m 
without a single 8 1 . 7 
ossils to a greater or less extent prevailing in! 
