354 J. D. Dana—Reindeers in Southern New England. 
The Quinnipiac valley, south of North Haven village, is to a 
great extent a region of wet meadows and marshes, nearly five 
miles long and one broad, deep in peat, and mostly under 
water at high tide. The clay depots occur for three and a 
half miles on both the east and west margins, sometimes ex- 
tending laterally to the peat region there to stop suddenly, 
of 11 feet in the clay bed, and the tibia, subsequently, at 4 
depth of 7 feet. Professor Marsh has given me the following 
note on these bones for this place: 
“The two bones from the clay pit of North Haven are the 
right humerus and left tibia of a species of Reindeer, about the 
size of Rangifer tarandus. The two bones did not belong ie 
the same individual, the humerus indicating a younger an 
somewhat larger animal. The tibia is the more characteristic 
*Beneath North Haven village the bed thins to 4 or 5 feet and the clay 8 
rather sandy—or what is called “weak clay.” In sinking a well about 80 rods 
ug ; 
fine quicksand, before reaching tide level. At another place, nearer the river, 
bed of clay was 5 feet thick and the sand between ‘oul tide level but 3 a 
south end iac basin, four a half miles south of Nort 
Haven, the terrace has a height of 42 feet above high-tide level, there 
layers of quicksand in the formation; but no clay has yet been found. It may, 
ist 4 below the sands. 
+Four miles from New Haven and two from North Haven. 
