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Trichinopoly.—The spot in this district from which Mr. Kaye pro-= 
cured his specimens he was not able to visit. The fossils occur also 
in a limestone, preserve their shelly matter with occasionally the 
colour, and belong principally to marine genera, but some are con- 
sidered to be of freshwater origin. Cephalopods appear to be of very 
rare occurrence, Mr. Kaye having obtained from the locality only 
one fragment of a large Ammonite. Wood bored by Teredines is 
also found in the limestone. 
Verdachellum.—From a calcareous rock near Verdachellum, forty 
miles from Pondicherry, Mr. Kaye procured a variety of marine shells, 
including a considerable number of Ammonites, considered by him to 
be distinct from those found near Pondicherry ; also a few imperfect 
Nautili and a few Echinide, corals, &c. 
Among the testacea are several considered to belong to species 
found in the Trichinopoly deposit, and a few believed by Mr. Kaye 
to be identifiable with Pondicherry shells. This limestone is likewise 
bordered by a red sand which contains specimens of silicified wood. 
The formation was discovered only a short time before the writer 
quitted India, and he consequently considers his collection as defec- 
tive; but he regards the deposit whence it was obtained as of interest, 
affording, by its position and organic contents, a link between the 
other two localities. ; 
6: A paper ‘ On the Fossil Foot-prints of Birds and Impressions 
of Rain-drops in the Valley of the Connecticut.” By Charles Lyell, 
Esq., V-P.G.S. 
The deposit in which these impressions, long known on account 
of the researches of Prof. Hitchcock, occur, is situated in a trough of 
hypogene rocks, about five miles broad, the strata, which consist of 
sandstone, shale and conglomerate, dipping uniformly to the east at 
atigles that vary from 5° to 30°. Mr. Lyell first examined the red 
sandstone at Rocky Hill, three miles south of Hartford, n Connec- 
. ticut, where it is associated with red shale and capped by twenty 
feet of greenstone. Many of the beds are rippled, and cracks in the 
shale are filled by the materials of the superincumbent sandy layer, 
. Showing, the author observes, a drying and shrinking of the mud 
while the accumulation of the strata was in progress. The next 
quarries he examined were at Newark in New Jersey, about ten 
tiles west from New York city. The excavations are extensive, 
atid the strata dip, as is usual in New Jersey, to the north-west, or 
in an opposite direction to the inclination in the valley of Con- 
necticut, a ridge of hypogene rocks intervening. The angle is about 
35° near Newark. The beds exhibited ripple-marks and casts of 
cracks, also impressions of rain-drops on the upper surface of the fine 
red shales. Mr. Lyell states, that he felt some hesitation respecting 
_ the impressions first assigned to the action of rain by Mr. Cunning- 
liam of Liverpool *, but he is now convinced of the justness of the 
inference, having observed similar markings produced on very soft 
* See anéé, p. 99. 
