Meek and Worthen on a Scorpion and other fossils, etc. 19 
ueryis at once answered by the fact, that if the gentry of 
Recilin and the people in the adjoining country had allowed 
me to proceed at my leisure and had not forced me to fly for 
my life, I could, even in that remarkably dry season, have per- 
formed the whole journey in boats except nine miles; and I 
am confident that if I had left Canton in the rainy season I 
could have made the whole distance of two thousand miles, 
through the interior of China, and come out to the sea coast 
again at Shanghai in one and the same boat. 
his enables us to realize that the next wonder in regard to 
China, after the density of her population, is the completeness 
of her internal water communication. 
Art. I1.—Preliminary notice of a Scorpion, a Eurypterus ? 
and other fossils, from the Coal-measures of Illinois; by 
F. B. Meex and A. H. WorTHEn. 
Amonast some fossils discovered last summer by Mr. Joseph 
Even, in the iron nodules of the Coal-measures at Mazon creek, 
Grundy county, Illinois, and loaned by him for the use of the 
Illinois Geological Survey, there are a few types of such unu- 
sual interest, that we have thought it desirable to present a pre- 
liminary notice of them, in advance of more extended descrip- 
tions and illustrations, to appear in one of the reports of the 
urvey. . : 
‘The first of these is a fine. Zurypterus, or a species of a 
ipes and E. ro- 
_* These legs are slender, apparently without lateral spines, and terminate in a 
Single long, acutely pointed dactylus, gotus. 
