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tive plural of the 2nd declension at a later date than about the middle 
of the seventh century of the City, z.e. about 100 years s.c. 
It may be worth while to observe, that the omission of e¢ between 
two namesisnot uncommon. We have an example in Henzen, n. 5733, 
—M:P: VERTVLEIEIS,—.e. as we express it, Marcus and Pub- 
lius Vertuleius. Yn Orelli, n. 3121, there is a similar form—Q- M° 
MINVCIEIS Q°F°RVF: i.e. Quintus et Marcus Minucti, Quint 
Jilii, Rufi, or as we express it, Quintus and Marcus Minucius Rufus, 
sons of Quintus. 
The inscription on the block I regard as showing that it was from 
the mines rented by the two Roscil. It is possible that they may 
have been public officers, but we should then probably have had their 
official designation. 
NOTES ON THE DAVENPORT GRAVEL DRIFT. 
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BY SANDFORD FLEMING, C.E. 
Read before the Canadian Institute, March 2nd, 1861. 
The flat plain skirting Lake Ontario in the locality of Toronto, 
and on which the city is built, extends for many miles westerly, and 
is bounded on the east by the Scarborough Heights, and on the 
north by the terrace-shaped elevation known as the Davenport 
Ridge. This terrace crosses Yonge-street about half a mile north 
of Yorkville, immediately at the residence of the Hon. Mr. Morrison, 
and trends westerly and slightly north-westerly a little over three 
miles to the point where the Northern Railway crosses the Daven- 
port road. At this point the terrace changes its direction, anda 
peculiar gravel deposit begins: the terrace, instead of continuing 
its uniform westerly direction, takes a sudden bend towards the 
north, and sweeps diagonally through the third and fourth conces- 
sions of the township of York, for a distance of nearly four miles, 
until it reaches the neighbourhood of Weston. Here it loses itself 
in the rising ground ascending easterly from the Humber, but is 
again developed on the western bank of that river, and, extending 
