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The fossil stratum referred to, has afforded the author, only from 

 the spechiiens sent him on four or five occasions by Judge Tait, 

 more than two hundred and fifty species, out of which seven are not 

 referable to any known genus, and two hundred and ten species 

 (besides nine species of Polypi) are not referable to any known spe- 

 cies : and " it is an extraordinary fact, that among the whole of them 

 there cannot be, wijh absolute certainty, a single species found to have 

 its analogue in a living species. Some of the genera, are unknown 

 on our coast ; some are found only in a fossil slate in Europe ;" and 

 the author doubts whether a single species is strictly analogous to those 

 of the Eocene period of Europe, but nevertheless infers the identity 

 of its epoch with that formation from the number of turrited shells 

 and similar genera. Besides the shells there were found among 

 the sand, shark's teeth of several different forms, part of a claw of a 

 species of Cancer, some fragments of a fossil similar to what Bran- 

 der figures under the name o^ Palatiumpiscium, and the tooth, spine 

 and vertebrae of fish. 



Annexed, the reader will perceive is the list of the new fossil shells 

 of this remarkable locality. 



CLASS POLYPI. 

 Family Milleporad^. 

 Lunulites Boiiei. 



Duclosii. 

 Orbitolites interstitia. 

 discoidea. 

 Family Lamellifer^. 

 Turbinolia Maclurii. 

 Stokesii. 

 Goldfussii. 

 nana, 

 pharetra. 

 CLASS ANNULATA. 

 Family Dorsalia. 

 Siliquaria Claibornensis. 



Family Maldania. 

 Dentaliura alternatum. 

 lurritum. 

 Family Serpulea. 

 Spirorbis tubanella. 

 Serpula ornata. 



Family Tubicolaria. 

 Teredo simplex. 



Family Solenacea. 

 Solecurtus Blainviilii. 



Family Myaria. 

 Anatina Claibornensis. 



Family Mactracea. 

 Mactra dentata. 

 Grayi. 

 pygmsa. 



Family Corbui,ea. 

 Corbula Alabamiensis. 

 Murchisonii. 

 gibbosa. 

 compressa. 

 Family Lithophaga. 

 Byssomia petricoloides. 



Family Nymphacea. 

 Egeria rotunda, 

 infllata. 

 nitens. 

 triangulata. 

 Bucklandii. 

 subtrigonia. 

 veneriformis. 



