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Notes on Fossils of Utica Formation. ai 
again, to sleep. The sun may pour forth from the “ golden 
window of the East,” and flood the world with limpid light; 
the stars may pale and the jet of the midnight sky be dilut- 
ed to that pale and perfect morning blue, into which you 
gaze to immeasurable depth; the air may become a pervad- 
ing champagne, dry and delicate, every draught of which 
tingles the lungs and spurs the blood along the veins with 
joyous speed ; the landscape may woo the eye with airy un- 
dulations of prairie or snow-pointed pinnacles lifted sharply 
against the azure; yet sleep claims you. That very quality 
of the atmosphere which contributes to all this beauty and 
makes it so delicious to be awake, makes it equally blessed 
to slumber. Lying there in the open air, breathing the 
pure elixir of the untainted mountains, you come to think 
even the confinement of a flapping tent oppressive, and the 
ventilation of a sheltering spruce-bough bad. 
Notes ON FossILsS FROM THE UTICA FORMATION AT 
Pornt-a-Pic, Murray River, Murray Bay 
(QUE.), CANADA. 
By Henry M. Amy, M.A., F.G.S. 
Whilst preparing my paper “On the Utica Formation 
and its fossils in Canada” for the Royal Society meeting of 
last spring, a very interesting though small collection of 
fossils was kindly placed at my disposal by Mr. Walter F. 
Ferrier, who had obtained the same in the black bituminous 
shales which crop out along the shore on the Murray River 
near its mouth, holding a fauna pre-eminently Utica in its 
facies. 
The numerous and interesting geological features of 
Murray Bay and its environs have in years gone by received 
much attention and elicited careful study at the hands of 
geologists, notably Sir William Dawson, Dr. Harrington, 
members of the Geological Survey staff, and others whose 
contributions form a valuable series of articles in the Cana- 
