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There are also two slabs of Shale from the celebrated locality at BooBlon 

 (New- Jersey), each baYing upon its surface a perfect Fossil 

 Fish, the one seven and the other nine inches in length. 

 This locality in New- Jersey has been pronounced by geologists to be- 

 long to the era of the New-Redsandstone formation, and consequently is 

 of the same age with the Sunderland shales. 



There are also in the collection obtained at the sale of Mr. Maksh's Cabi- 

 net, thirty-one beautiful Fossils of the Eocene period, from 

 Cuba, the species of which have not yet been determined. 



FOSSILS TAKEN FROM THE STATE CABINET. 



ISOTELUS GIGAS. 



The Giant Isotelus. 



Vanitxem, Geol. Rep. New-York, pa. 47. 

 Emmons, Geol. Rep. New-York, pag. 389. 

 Hall, Pal. New-York, Vol. 1, p. 231. 



The above woodcut (reduced one-third in size from the original 

 fossil) was delineated from a beautiful specimen which was found 

 in the Trenton limestone at Middleville,- Herkimer county, New- 

 York, by the late Mr. Wadleigh. It was purchased from Mr. Wad- 

 leigh by the late Lardner Vanuxem, at the time he was employed 

 as one of the State geologists, for the sum often dollars; who, 

 with his characteristic liberality, presented it to the State Cabinet. 

 ( See Vanuxem's Geology of New- York, page 46). 



