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hardly be observed but for the water level in the river ; ripple-marks of 



various types and directions are common on these layers ; below them 



the limestone crops out, it is from its nature less regular than the shales, 



but it too has an inclination to S. S. E. massive beds of 2 to 5 feet, but 



the aggregate thickness does not exceed 30 feet. The stone is not very 



constant in texture, sometimes pure and fine grained, sometimes earthy, 



or even with a crystalline roughness ; it is not here traversed by strings 



of chert as at Rewah, but some of its layers and surfaces are charged 



with concretionary and other markings which often have a puzzling 



resemblance to organic forms." It was here that 

 Franklin's fossils. 



Captain Franklin got his gryphcea, ferns and 



fossil wood — without denying the authenticity of his specimens as I have 

 not seen them, or his judgment in naming them, I may remark that I 

 have seen greater errors of the kind made, than it would be to take some 

 of the appearances in this rock for fossils; but I could not take upon myself 

 to say whether they be organic impressions or not. The commonest form 

 is exceedingly like those casts which have given to the light sub-crystal- 

 line limestone of Riidersdorf near Berlin, the name of Stylolithen and 

 Stangelkalk, a variety I believe of the muschelkalk ; but I do not 

 know what is the opinion of palaontologists regarding those casts. 

 The German specimens are much better preserved than those at 

 Nagode, the stone here being a compact blue limestone like the ordinary 

 Carboniferous type. I did not observe in these the appearance of a 

 core, as is often seen in those of Riidersdorf, but externally they both are 

 deeply grooved stems from a quarter of an inch to one inch in diameter, 

 sometimes rounded, but most commonly sharply angular and even with 

 re-entering angles ; I have not seen them more than two inches loncj, 

 and they often have a flatly convex end, those at Nagode are com- 

 monly compound, occurring in clusters, and thus by the blending of 

 the terminations produce a surface, roughly mammillated and irregu- 

 larly speckled as might be the surface of an amorphozoon. One is 



