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rifle practice companies of the i6th Bedfordshire regiment, detached 

 from headquarters at Hamilton, Ontario. It was generally rather late 

 in the day when the firing ceased, and occasionally I was compelled 

 to prosecute my investigations there on a rainy day which the 

 musketry inspector (with a first-class Hythe certificate) considered 

 would be unwarrantable under the circumstances, viz., to expose 

 soldiers unnecessarily to practical discomfort and utterly disgust them 

 with what our own Canadian volunteers now excel in, rifle practice. 



As regards the extension of our local Chert, there I found no 

 indications of its existence. Dr. J. Pettit thinks it does not occur 

 east of Stony Creek, and it is not certain that the beds reach the 

 village itself. The new T. H. and B. railway comes out on the 

 escarpment, I understand, a little beyond, and it may yet, perhaps, 

 aff"ord us a chance of furnishing some reliable data for forming an 

 opinion on this vexed point. 



In a former paper on "The Grimsby Excursion," published in 

 the proceedings of 1892-93, you may remember I asserted our locai 

 Clinton iron band had quite a diff'erent aspect there, and was so 

 changed that I hesitated to put forth a statement that the red and 

 mottled sandstones there were the actual representatives of the 

 Hamilton beds. While I doubted I could be mistaken after such 

 a careful examination, I recognized that others probably might 

 not be so readily satisfied by the bare assertion, unsupported by any 

 additional evidence. 



During the past summer, while residing on the lake shore 

 (Winona Park), five miles from Grimsby, I paid several visits to the 

 quarries, formerly worked by Mr. Gibson, and obtained the rock 

 specimens now produced in proof that no mistake was made at the 

 time. Even our colored Lingula band you can see is represented. 

 Although the Brachiopods are in rather a fragmentary condition, the 

 others display the alteration which occurs at a similar horizon. All 

 three specimens are found inside fifty yards. 



The object I had in view in calling Prof. Schuchert's particular 

 attention to the two upper Clinton beds at the reservoir, near the 

 JoUey Cut, was to enable him to compare them subsequently with 

 the ones at Grimsby, so that he could form an independent opinion 

 regarding this point. When we reached Grimsby, an old acquain- 

 tance informed me I would almost certainly find Prof Schuchert 



