1800.] AXCV BONF.-CA.VK:> IN SICILY. 460 



Bpynie, Enverugie, and Lossiemouth are in reality very dissimilar to 

 the cornstones of Foths and Cothall ; and be then pointed out the 

 improbability of the Bo-called cornstone of Glassgreen continuing to 

 dip aarth-westwardly under the sandstone ofthe Quarry-wood Ridge, 

 especially as near Linksfield it is, at different spots, seen to dip away 

 from that ridge. Evidence also of a break in the strata at the Bishop 

 Mil] qnarriee was advanced to show thai the sandstone beneath 

 this " cornstone n (presumed to be the Eteptiliferous sandstone) is 

 probably brought b} a fault against the lower or Holoptychian sand- 

 stone, which latter towards Bpynie the author thinks is surmounied 

 by the Reptiliferous sandstone, and this last oonformablybya marly 

 siliceous rock or so-called •• Gornstone." 



Beyond Bpynie Looh, northward, the author supposed that another 

 fault had again brought up the sandstone with Stagonolepti and 

 Hyperodcqptdon at Lossiemouth. Beyond this a cornstone-ttke rock 

 is again seen to cover the sandstone. 



The author then referred to the probable Liassio and Triassio cha- 

 racter of the shales at Linksfield, and dwelt upon the suggestion 

 that had been offered as to the probability of the layer of boulder- 

 clay beneath the shales having been due fco the mass of shales h ! ng 

 a portion of a cliff in the glacial period, and having then slipped 

 from a higher level. Regarding these shales as having been removed 

 merely by a slip from their original site, and as conformably over- 

 Lying the calcareo-siliceous rock and sandstone hem-nth. Mr. By- 

 monds expressed his belief that this sandstone, shifted by a fault 

 against the Eoloptychian Bandstone at Quarry-wood, must be the 

 Reptiliferous sandstone and of Triassic age. Lastly he remarked that 

 the pebble-beds and Bandstone, track-marked and rippled, of Burgh 

 Eead are Gar more like the Triassic conglomerates of England than 



like the Old Red rocks of Cothall and Foths. 



2. Notia oftht Discovers of Two Bonb-i lvbs in Nbsx&nH BiozlTi 



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tin ■ Letter" to Dr. Falooi 



Simi you Left Sicily, I have continued my palaeontologies! re- 

 Bearchos, and I am happy in having diseovered two bone-i 

 previously unknown. Oneol U inteGallojal thewi 



extremity of the Bay of Palermo, and is situated at an elevation of 

 160 feel above the sea -level ; the other is situated near the vill 

 \ o Dolci, at the foot of M S Fratello, in the north of Sicily, 

 and Ls 214 • level. 



Th( cially the last, are very rich; and. what will 



astonish you, they contain a prodigious quantity of boni 



a, including perfect j iwa armed with mol I 



havecollt two molars and a ta has, tot h and hones 



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