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Canadian Record of Science. 
An interesting collection was made by the writer in 1883 
at Whitby on a farm and lot, the property of Mr. Yerex, 
south of the G.T.R. track close to where a bore hole was put 
down by a company many years ago in order to find coal or 
petroleum. It was in spite of Sir Wm. Logan’s assertions 
and statements regarding the strata in this neighbourhood 
not being coal-bearing or “ carboniferous ” that the com- 
pany sank the hole and found that as soon as the bituminous 
shales capping the Trenton were traversed, the limestones 
formed a compact and solid thickness of rock beneath. It 
is almost needless to state here that neither coal nor 
petroleum were “struck” at this point, and furthermore 
that neither of these substances occur in this region. Ex- 
cept the very small percentage of oil which can be extracted 
from the more bituminous shales of the Utica here as else- 
where—no reservoir of petroleum or occurrence of that 
mineral oil can be obtained in the rocks of this age. 
The fossil remains found at the pit or quarry, close to the 
bore-hole, Whitby, belong precisely to the same geological 
horizon as the shales in the vicinity of the Rideau Rifle 
Range, 
Ottawa, or as the shales at Collingwood to be 
described later on. 
The species recorded from this locality are:— 
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OO OMI QD OP CO be 
Bee 
Co be 
. Leptograptus flaccidus, Hall. 
. Orthograptus quadrimucronatus, Hall. 
. Leptobolus insignis, Hall. 
. Lingula sp. 
. Leptzxna sericea, Sowerby. 
. Zygospira modesta, Say. 
. Lyrodesma pulchellum, Emmons. 
. Trocholites ammonius, Emmons. 
. Endoceras proteiforme, Hall. 
. Primitia Ulrichi, Jones. 
. Asaphus Canadensis, Chapman. 
. Triarthrus Canadensis, Smith. 
. Triarthrus Becki, Green. 
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Crustacean, ? (cf.fragment of Echinognathus Clevelandi, W.) 
Then, following northward the belt of Utica crosses the 
Province of Ontario and is covered by a great deal of drift 
