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and it is rare that any specimen is found more perfect than the one 

 here represented. It is reported that in 1774, the emperor of Ger- 

 many offered one hundred dollars for " a stone lily free from its ma- 

 trix, and attached to its column ;" and it does not appear that such 

 an one was ever furnished. Mr. John S. Bonny, late of Schoharie, 

 now of this city, who has acquired much celebrity for his mineral- 

 ogical researches in Schoharie Co., in the spring of 1835, obtained 

 the lily in question. Several days were spent in blasting and break- 

 ing rocks, before he discovered it. Mr. B. says he has traced the 

 stems of these lilies the distance of 20 feet. All the other specimens 

 he has been enabled to procure are imperfect, and consist of detach- 

 ed pieces. 



Mr. Bonny has furnished us with the following description of their 

 locality. 



" It is situated about one quarter of a mile east of the Schoharie 

 court house in a perpendicular ledge of rocks, about 50 feet high. 

 The different strata occur in the following order. 



1st stratum, about thirty feet — shell limerock, containing trilobites 

 of the Asaphus variety, the Orthocera, Spirifer and Terebratula of 

 different varieties. 



2nd stratum, two feet — in the center of this stratum is a layer of 

 clay slate, one inch thick, in which is found the most perfect Lily ; 

 it also contains the stag-horn encrinile, trilobites and terebratula. 



3d stratum, eight feet — stratified limerock containing trilobites, 

 species of the echinus, fiustra, and orthocera. 



4th stratum, ten feet — stratified limerock, containing species of 

 the echinus and fiustra. 



5th stratum, ten feet — lias contains all the strontianite localities 

 discovered by myself; carbonate and sulphate of strontian, barry 

 strontianite of Traill. 



4. Extracts from an account of a visit to Iceland, hy M. Eugene 

 Robert. — The siliceous concretions formed by the geysers of Ice- 

 land, cover an extent of four leagues in length, throughout which 

 there are numerous traces of the ancient geysers. We have hence 

 been enabled to observe this singular formation under all its different 

 forms ; passing by insensible shades from that of a loose and friable 

 character, the result of a rapid deposition, to the most compact and 

 transparent. We have not only observed impressions of the leaves 

 of the birch tree, of Equiseta and various grasses, but the trunks of 



