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carefully selected striated specimens from the till, also from the con- 

 crete and other beddings which will be of interest to illustrate the 

 diagram. 



I might mention that there have been several bones and speci- 

 mens of wood found laying just above the till. The first discovered 

 was the blade bone probably of a moose. This was found twenty- 

 two feet below the surface in the lower concrete bed at the west end 

 of the cutting, near Garth street ; this lower bed of concrete rests on 

 the till, like it does at the Iroquois beach at Bay and Park streets. 

 I also found the lower jaw-bone of some carnivorous animal about 

 eight inches long, between Locke and Pearl streets. It also appeared 

 to be from the sand overlapping the till, but of this I could not be 

 certain as much of the surface falls to the bottom and comes up with 

 the till from the bottom. This has been sent to a professor at Magill 

 University for examination. I also found a branch or root of wood 

 in the same vicinity ; it appears to be partly carbonized ; it may have 

 been partly burnt before it was drifted there. I think it would be 

 worth while to send all the specimens of wood found to Professor 

 Penholland, of Magill University, as he is a specialist on that subject. 

 There have been some more important finds by Colonel Grant and 

 others, from the cutting near Bay street. He will no doubt describe 

 them when he feels certain of their nature. I had hoped to have 

 had these and some specimens of fossil shells found in the fragments 

 of stone found in the till, but they are mostly small and imperfect, 

 and I do not readily recognize them ; however, they are mostly from 

 the Trenton Utica shales and Hudson river. I shall, when they are 

 named, leave them with the specimens now before you. 



I have made these few remarks with the object of bringing the 

 subject of these formations before you in order that we may discuss 

 the varying arrangements of these drifts and their relation to the 

 formation of the surroundmg country. 



