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careful examination of the rocks removed, and the shale dumped 
on the slope near the Jolley Cut road, quite a large number of 
fossils were found. The iron band at this point, and lower 
Clinton green shales, presented several specimens not noticed 
at other similar horizons. The Zingula Lingulata, a Brachiopod, 
described and figured by the late Dr. Jas. Hall, from the 
former, was very numerous in a massive block which required 
to be broken up by the sledge. It appears to be confined to 
this particular place near the city. Three Graptolites occur in 
the shales below, which the writer has never noticed in the 
Clinton elsewhere. The Fucoids there are in rather poor pre- 
servation with one exception, in an instance where the plant 
was converted into iron. The specimen is now in the Redpath 
Museum, and pronounced a plant by the late Sir W. Dawson. 
The upper green band (so rich in plant remains at Grimsby) 
contains merely a few ill-preserved Linmgule@ at the Jolley Cut 
road, but fair specimens of ZL. Clznfonz were to be had in the 
ravine below the Mountain View Hotel before the Incline 
Railway was placed there, and many organic remains, includ- 
ing the best preserved internal casts of Pentamerus oblongus yet 
discovered in the neighborhood of Hamilton. A quarry close 
to the hotel, not worked for some years for macadamizing 
material, afforded several Graptolites (Dzctyonemas chiefly), 
bearing a greater resemblance to Quebec—lower silurian ones 
—than any seen in the city and adjoining quarries. One 
presented close bars connecting the branches at or rather near 
the base, gradually widening at the centre and becoming 
smaller towards the extremity of the branches, before it became 
embedded in the olden sea bottom. If only fragments of this 
single specimen were found, a paleontologist may well be 
mistaken for looking on them as representatives of distinct 
species. 
I have been informed that the city will require a large 
quantity of stone as road material from the quarries at the head 
of the Jolley Cut road this year. Most probably the lower 
limestones, known in the States as the old Clintons (the best 
suited for the purpose), will be broken up for the crusher, 
