THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 111 
GEOLOGICAL NOTES. 
Read before the Geological Section of the Llumilton Scientific 
Association, November 27, 1902. 
BY COL. C. C. GRANT. 
Winona.—The writer left the city earlier than usual for 
Winona Park, and was greatly surprised to find on arrival there 
that the water of the lake was unusually shallow at so early a 
date. The conclusion reached after some deliberation was the 
responsibility for the state of things is due to the diminished 
snow falls last winter, to the Chicago canal, or both combined. 
It seems a serious matter as far as lake navigation is concerned 
in future. On returning to Hamilton, on enquiry I found the 
lake subsequently reached its level there, even before the heavy 
rains of the past summer had fallen. 
On one occasion, While collecting fossils on the lake shore, 
I saw no less than five schooners from Toronto (as I was told) 
busily employed in loading their boats, and transferring to their 
respective vesssls the boulders in the shallow water and along 
the shore. I already mentioned how much protection they ai- 
forded the land on the south side of Lake Ontario by accumu- 
lating drifting sand and thereby checking to some extent the 
encroachment of the water. It may be difficult to understand 
the blindness to their own interests of the property holders 
along the lake shore in this matter, when even our city alder- 
men were observant enough to see several years ago that the 
removal of the sand from the Beach was likely to prove so in- 
jurious that it required to be in future prevented, and heavy 
penalties were imposed on trespassers. 
Although a large collection of Cambro-Silurian fossils was 
made along the shore near the park, few new to science were 
obtained. A fine Cyrtodonta (Cypricardites) Conrad was 
found soon after my arrival, and as it did not quite correspond 
