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in uniform thickness; they often coalesce and divide again into very 

 strange forms, breaking into thin streams or twisting into knotty folds. 

 Below this is another bed of the same sand, and it is in this bed just 

 below these stick-like forms we come across strange globular forms, 

 which have been called petrified melons. Some bear a striking 

 resemblance to those forms, while others are like pears, plums and 

 other fruits. Some one remarked that this part of Ontario was the 

 finest fruit-bearing section, and it had evidently been so some twenty 

 thousand years ago, as petrified fruit was found in abundance. I 

 stood by and saw five of these forms taken out from one square 

 yard of sand. They take all imaginable forms. I saw one hke a 

 dumbbell, a straight bar about five inches long with a perfect globe 

 at both ends. It is not uncommon to find drips through the sand, 

 stalactite forms of various shapes, but in the two-foot beds above 

 described they run parallel to the lay of the sand, and many 

 of the globular forms were no doubt formed by dripping water. 

 About two feet below the railway bed you strike the blue tile. 



After you cross the railway bridge, on Main Street going west, 

 you strike a much higher elevation. On the south side of this eleva- 

 tion the bank is cut into to obtain the sand. This cutting is over 

 twenty feet deep, and there is a very fine vein of sand beds, showing 

 the various lines of drift. It would be of much interest to the Asso- 

 ciation if some member of the photograph section would take views 

 of both sides of this cutting, showing the concrete beds and various 

 beds of sand. The lowest of these beds of sand show the same con- 

 solidated strips, and under these the same globular forms of all sizes, 

 like those found at the railway cutting, but they are at an elevation of 

 some fifteen feet higher. There appears to be no dip and no connec- 

 tion with the lower beds at the railway cutting. The same form 

 appears to be repeated at a higher level ; on the opposite side of the 

 road they are reaching lower beds of sand, but not so low as those of 

 the railway cutting, so that I could not find if they were repeated. 

 These hills and washings-out reach the marsh and are of much interest, 

 cutting through the Burhngton Beach. The cutting of the railway 

 to the canal is also of much interest. 



