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Long Island; and this island must have participated in the up- 
d 
It is however to be admitted that, with the suggested method 
of accounting for the dip in the Connecticut Valley eae pire 
there was no need of any sandstone in the son River Valley; 
and, no need, in fact, of any sandstone over the intermediate 
region of crystalline rocks between that valley and the New 
Jersey are 
ae ) No avideues of such an anticlinal, or of the supposed 
ount of erosion, exists excepting this—that the sandstone of the 
Comhoetiout Valle dips eastward, and that of New Jersey, situ- 
ated wholly to the south of the southern limit of the Connecticut 
area in Triassico-Jurassic times was a Connecticut Valley estuary, 
at the termination of the Connecticut River, and had its violent 
floods, which may have been for part of the time enlarged by the 
waters and ice of a semi-glacial era—quite as well as by that of 
its i the eastern part of a much larger estuary; and even 
bet 
The features ‘of the Connecticut Valley beds afford _— argu- 
ments; but it is not necessary to bring them up at this 
an Geological Survey of ans. —The fo oaine vol- 
umes containing Reports of Progress of this survey, have been 
recently issued, in addition to had by Mr. C. A. AsHBURNER 
mentioned on a former page of this volume. They show great 
activity in the Surve ey. 
Lteport of Progress of Bradford te Tioga Counties (G), 272 
pp- 8vo, with maps and sections; including: 1. on the Limits pas the 
Catskill and Chemung formations, by A. SHerwoop; 2. 
tions of Coal fields, by F. Pirarr; and 3, on the Coking of Bitu- 
minous Coal, by . Furr 
Il. Report are Progress in Indiana County (HHH), by W. G. 
Pratt, 316 pp. 8vo, with a colored map of the County. 1878. 
Ill. Catalogue of the Geological Museum, Part I, Rock speci- 
mens. 218 8vo. 78. 
EN: n Hematite Deposits of the Siluro-Cambrian 
limestones of Lehigh County, lying between Shimersville, Millers- 
town, Schnecksville, Balli — and the Lehigh River (DD), by 
Freperick Prme, Jr.; 100 pp. 8vo » With 5 m see we and 5 
direct continuation of the ma once — the beds affording 
encrinital stems identical with those found in Northampton 
