Miscellanies. 405 



Momiments of Greenland, and on the Ante-Columbian History of Amer- 

 ica. Of the Annals, one number in 8vo. is to be published yearly, be- 

 ginning with 1836, and of the Memoirs, a similar number every second 

 year, commencing with 1838. 



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 favor by the American people ; and that our literary institutions and 

 public libraries will not fail to furnish themselves with its valuable publi- 

 cations. 



6. Fossil Remains in Lenoir County, N. C — Extract of a letter to the 

 editors from John Limber, dated Strabane, Lenoir county, N. C, June 

 ICth, 1SS9. — This location was discovered by Mr. Richard Rouse, the 

 owner of the land, when digging a dike to drain a bog. The location is 

 near the summit level between the Neuse and North East rivers. It is 

 on a branch of the Neuse, three miles from it, and at least one hundred 

 feet above it, and about sixty miles west of Pamlico Sound. 



The upper stratum of earth is about three feet in deptli, and is the com- 

 mon soil of the region, viz. a fine white sand and vegetable matter. The 

 next stratum is of about the same depth, and is composed almost entirely 

 oi' shells, of a great variety of species; and a still greater variety of sizes. 

 These are cast together in every manner, lying in every position, and 

 shells in shells. Next is a stratum of yellowish clay only a few inches in 

 depth, and containing bones of enormous size. Below this is a stratum of 

 black clay impenetrable by water ; depth unknown. This also contains 

 a few bones and in a more perfect state. 



On the first of June I visited this location in company with Mr, Rouse, 

 and in two hours we found bones enough for a load to transport home in 

 our arms. Among them was a piece of a rib-bone about two feet in length, 

 which measures three and a half inches in width, and about two and a half 

 in thickness. We also found a tooth of a triangular shape, which is four 

 inches across the base, and about five in length. Mr. Rouse informed 

 me that he had found a part of a tooth, which must have belonged to one 

 four times as large as the one I found : and that he had found a vertebra 

 eight inches in diameter. These bones are found in all the strata, but 

 the largest are the lowest. Of the quantity of shells it may not be amiss 

 to say, that there are millions of bushels, and they are beginning to be 

 used for manure. 



7. Removal of Fishes. — In Dr. Storer's report on the subject of fishes, 

 given at page 378 of the last volume, he remarks, that the only instance 

 with which he was acquainted of the successful removal of a species of 

 fish from one body of watei\to another in this country, was that of the re- 

 moval of the Perca fiavescens from Rockonkoma to Success pond on 

 Long Island, by Dr. Mitchill. 



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