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Concretions are abundant in the clay on Center island and West 

 neck. Those found at the latter locality are disc-shaped, while 

 those found on Center island are more or less botrvoidal. 



Silicified yellow gravel fossils have been found by the writer 

 in the sands on West neck/ and more were subsequently found 

 in other localities by Dr HoUick.^ 



On Little neck, in ISTorthport bay, is an extensive deposit of 

 stoneware clay and fire sand, which has been worked for a num- 

 ber of years. The clay is stratified, the layers being separated 

 by laminae of sand. In color the material varies from black to 

 brown and yellow, and it becomes sandy in its upper portion. 

 There is a dip of 15° se due to a slipping of the clay bank. 

 Overlying the clay is cross-bedded fine sand and gravel, the latter 

 containing much coarse material near the surface. Very little 

 till covers the whole. Much fine, white fire sand occurs in por- 

 tions of the bank. A careful examination of the section showed 

 a brownish black seam of the clay, 2 feet thick, containing 

 numerous fragments of plant remains, of which a number were 

 sufiiciently well preserved to determine the Cretaceous age of the 

 clay beyond doubt. The species were identified for me by Dr 

 Hollick as follows: 



Protaeoides daphnogenoides Heer 

 Paliurus integrifolia Hollick 

 Laurus angusta Heer 

 Myrsine sp. 

 Williamsonia sp. 

 CelastropJiyllum sp. 

 Paliurus sp. 



1 Trans. N. Y. acad. scL, 12. 



2 Trans. N. T. acad. sci., 13. 



