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the time when this was laid down. Elephants were not confined 

 formerly to warm climates. The ones found in Siberia, like our 

 Canadian ones, were furnished with a thick covering of long hair or 

 wool to enable them to resist the cold. Some of our spiritual in- 

 structors appear to be ignorant regarding the fact when they allude 

 to elephant remains scattered over the earth by " The Universal 

 Deluge." 



While Sir W. Logan and the officers of the Canadian Geologi- 

 cal Survey have referred to *^ Artlirophycus Harlani" as occurring 

 "at the top of the red portion (Medina beds) at St. Catharines," 

 and in blue or greenish shales immediately above " the grey band" 

 on the Welland canal at Thorold, I can find no record of its presence 

 at Grimsby either in " the Geology of Canada " or " the Paleontology 

 of Ontario, Nicholson." The fucoid occurs also at Hamilton, but 

 in rather poor preservation. Grimsby appears to be the locality 

 where it flourished and attained its chief development before the 

 latest Clinton beds were submerged to prepare the way for the over- 

 lying " Niagara limestone deposit." The upper green band in which 

 the plant occurs, plainly indicates a shallow sea, wave marks are 

 frequently noticed. We must not loose sight of this circumstance. 

 We possess to-day advantages unknown to " Field Geologists " of 

 " the Canadian Survey," in former times, when quarries had not 

 been opened up at Grimsby, and merely on a limited scale (very 

 probably) in the immediate vicinity of this city. Do not imagine 

 for a moment that "Silurian organic remains" (unknown to science) 

 may no longer be discovered here. Every year something new 

 turns up, even in the restricted district to which we are confined, 

 by the Acts of a Canadian Legislature, which, through ignorance of 

 of scientific pursuits, renders jesting by U. S. A. contemporaries al- 

 lowable, unfortunately at our Dominion's expense. 



