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E] Paso County, and in the Chinati Mountain, Presidio County, 
(affording 16 to 76 dollars of silver to the ton); and five miles 
northeast of Mason in Mason County. 
mass of meteoric iron is contained in the State collections at 
Austin, weighing 315 pounds, which is said to have been found on 
(Geol, Mag., April, 1876, p. 146, in a reply to a paper by Mr. H. 
Hicks), the oldest fossiliferous rocks of Scandinavia consist, mn 
ascending order, of (1) the Eophyton sandstone; (2) the Fucoid 
standstone ; and (3) the Paradoxides schists; and the last corre 
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Paradowides (Anopolenus, Plutonia), Conocoryphe (Hrinnys), 
tcrodiscus, Arionellus, Agnostus, and also Leperditia, Hyo- 
lithus, Lingulella, Obolella, Orthis, Protospongia, etc. The beds 
sandstone has afforded two species of Lingulide, and the 
this is no evidence that the former are younger than the latter. 
nosus, Ellipsocephalus Hoffi and Agnostus rex. : 
6. Glacial flood.—In a paper “on the Drift-deposits of the — 
Northwest,” in the Popular Science Monthly for July, 1873, Prot — 
N. H. Winchell presents the view that the terraces along the riv- 
ers and about the lakes of the Northwest [the northern part of 
the Continental Interior] are due solely to fi along the 
- Prof. Winchell argues, thence, against the opinion that 
the Champlain period was one of more or less depression of the — 
