Bhan oe) aT ald ate 
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Catskill ([X) formations in the valley of the Allegheny river at 
Olean and Allegany, the rocks mentioned occurring only to the 
south of these towns. But he seems to forget that the Alle- 
gheny river flows northward to these points, and that it is just 
as capable of carrying rock debris northward as the Delaware is 
of carrying it southward. There is no necessity for a glacier 
pit rocks” and “monument parks” are characteristic of a 
non-glaciated region, where long continued atmospheric erosion 
een uninterrupted either by glaciers or floods. The well 
known function of a glacier is to obliterate angular promi- 
nences, not to create them. I have been able to find no glacial 
marks of any kind at the Salamanca Rock city, nor any evidence 
that its origin was different from that of the Olean Rock city or 
similar phenomena elsewhere in the non-glaciated district. 
n conclusion, I may perhaps be permitted to say that, while 
regretting the necessity of making personal allusions to those 
or whom I have the highest regard, I have felt it to be neces- 
sary both in answer to certain requests that have been made,” 
and also as a vindication of my deduction as to the truly ter- 
minal character of the Pennsylvania moraine. 
Germantown, Pa., July 28, 1884. 
ArT. XXXVI—On a mass of Meteoric Iron from Wichita 
County, Texas; by J. W. MALLET. 
THE following is the history of the Wichita County meteoric 
mass, as given me by Hon. Henry P. Brewster, Commissioner 
of Insurance, Statistics and History of the State of Texas, a 
gentleman whose personal knowledge of the State in its early 
days is extensive and accurate. 
_ The meteorite was found on the upper waters of Red River, 
in what is now thecounty of Wichita, not far from the Red River 
: 1 Science, vol. ii, No. 41, p. 654. 
