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thickness, we may not be much surprised at a single oversight 

 on his part. For my part I wonder how he ever accomphshed so 

 much in the hmited time at his disposal. While I agree with him, 

 that Gamache or Ellis Bay has been carved out of the Niagara beds 

 proper, I doubt that Junction Cliff displays any point of contact 

 between the Cambro-Silurian rocks and those formerly described 

 as the Middle Silurians. I spent three days in examining the beds 

 deposited there, independent of several visits subsequently for the 

 purpose of collecting fossils, but I failed to obtain any confirmation 

 of this. I found it utterly impossible to make any separation of the 

 series at this point. All, or nearly all, the organic remains I ob- 

 tained there were well defined Niagara. There is a low cliff be- 

 tween this and the West Point Lighthouse, rather shaley at the 

 base, containing only a few fossils of the late Professor E. Billings' 

 Anticosti group. It holds, however, a great many specimens of 

 Hudson River species. I feel inclined to think the upper or almost 

 inaccessible part of this cliff may display the meeting place of both. 

 For my own part I believe Mr. Billings was quite correct when he 

 asserted no division existed, and no break in the chain of life has 

 been noticed as occurring at Anticosti. 



I succeeded in extracting from the soft shales a magnificent 

 and well preserved Murchisonia Gigantia, and quite a large collec- 

 tion of Orthidae, Orthisina, Ambonychea radiata and others, char- 

 acteristic of the upper Bala beds of Ontario. I placed them on a 

 large flag near the shore. Unfortunately while I was engaged in 

 adding to my collection, a French fisherman came along, and, un- 

 noticed by me, raised up the largest and rarest one to examine it. 

 You may easily fancy the result, it slipped through his clumsy fin- 

 gers and fell into fragments on the rock below. The interior was 

 hollow, but partly lined with spar or silex. Ellis Bay is one of the 

 best places for organic remains on the island, in addition to Bratre- 

 cea, the Paceolus, a yet undetermend organism, may be had there. 

 Although the exterior resembles a coral, the inside is filled with 

 muddy sediment. This I ascertained by breaking up the oval 

 species. It may be noted, the late Professor Billings previously 

 stated it could not belong to the Actinozoae. Whatever the classi- 

 fication, the beds at Ellis Bay are very fossiliferous, they form the 

 lower division of the Anticosti group. They are remarkable for 



