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came upon a layer of fine black soil, full two feet in thickness, in 
were found branches an inch in diameter; I procured a shovel, ai 
tained several specimens three-eights of an inch through, in a to 
state of preservation. Just above this bed of soil the material was 
In another well, three miles from this, the same kind of soi 
met with, after passing through clay for twenty-seven feet from the 
face. In the soil twigs were found; but on being brought to the air! 
crumbled to pieces, though the burk and heart were plainly to be seem 
Four miles from the first mentioned well, there was another, stil 
state of preservation. The top of the tree was lying southeast. 
Another fact, I have noticed in Wisconsin, is that stones prot 
through the surface, such as those known as hard-heads, presen 
perpendicular sides to the north, northeast, and northwest. This 
confined to any small portion of the State, but to quite an ex 
region. 
2. On the Geology of Eastern New York ; by Professor JAMES 
and Sir Wiiutam E. Logan. (Read before the Natural History 
a detailed account of their results, Their principal object was to 
pare the rocks of that Tegion with some of those of Eastern Ca 
he shales of the Hudson River group, which are seen for a consis 
able distance north and south of Albany, disappear a few miles ant 
the Hudson, and are succeeded by harder and coarser shales, somet! 
and passing into green argillaceous sands 
hich are associated with concretionary and 
~ found in a previous exploration (1844—45) to have, at a point faré 
- South, a synelinal structure, and it probably lies in three low 
bs The § ery formation scarcely extends south of Re’ 
