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new hunting ground, and we may expect to find that the rock cutting 

 on the Hne may throw a little light on the eastward extension of our 

 local chert beds, a matter unknown hitherto. Independent of this, 

 we need not feel surprised at discovering in the Niagara shales 

 Crinoids, Star Fishes, Bryozoons, etc, such as occur at Grimsby. 



While I was stopping at Winona Park during the past summer, 

 a farmer in the neighborhood requested me to come and see a curi- 

 ous looking sandstone flag which had been brought from the Moun- 

 tain (the escarpment) beyond. The specimen in question, on 

 examination, proved to be a remarkably fine Arthrophycus, clearly 

 proving that the Grimsby plant of the upper Clinton beds existed 

 there also, five miles off to the west. No doubt the small Arthro- 

 phyacs is represented also. The writer, in forwarding both specimens 

 to the late Dr. Jas. Hall, of Albany, thought the latter was a dis- 

 tinctive species, or it may be a variety. The doctor's fatal illness 

 occurring soon after the transmission of the parcel probably pre- 

 vented him from coi responding on the subject. That the box con- 

 taining the Fucoids, with other Hamilton fossils, was duly received, 

 is assured. 



OUR LOCAL CHERT BEDS 



may not be the best material for road metal ; they are, however, 

 almost universally known here as our Macadamizing Niagara beds, 

 inferior to the limestones for this purpose. Where the shales or, in 

 plain terms, the hardened compressed mud has been honestly 

 rejected, they are equal in resistance to pressure to some of the lake 

 gravel sometimes used for the same purpose. On examining several 

 places at the Beach and along the lake shore, I ascertained in many 

 instances that the rounded material was chiefly shale, not derived 

 from limestone pebbles or travelled boulders, as may be supposed. 

 In other places it appeared to be a very fair road metal, inferior no 

 doubt to such as can be obtained from granites, greenstones, etc., 

 found elsewhere, but not to be rejected because such rocks are 

 only found here scattered far apart, the travelled relics of the great 

 Ice Age, which would cost a considerable amount to our City 

 Fathers for conveyance, even if the farmers afforded assistance 

 regarding their removal for city purposes. 



