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other fossiliferous strata — belong to this group; while more 

 than another fifth belong to the Hamilton Group. But little has 

 yet been done toward the identification of the numerous species, 

 in consequence of the long expected, but long delayed, appear- 

 ance of Prof. Hall's third volume on the Paleontology of New 

 York. The highest members of the formation in Monroe county, 

 contain numerous ichthyodorulites and other traces of fishes, 

 the most perfect of which have been furnished by Judge Chris- 

 tiancy, from his quarry near Dundee. A finely preserved spine 

 from this locality, exhioits the generic characters of New- 

 berry's Machceracanthus* except that it is solid throughout. I 

 have also a traditional account of a pair of powerfully armed 

 fish jaws. The same quarry contains an abundance of beauti- 

 fully preserved Tentaculites, showing the telescopic structure of 

 the shell; a large encrinital stem, and a Gomphoceras (n. sp.), 

 which is found again in the highest beds of the formation at 

 Crawford's quarry, beyond Prcsque Isle. A little lower down, 

 in the borders of the oolitic beds, we find a Bhynchonella (n. 

 sp.). At Stony Pt. and Pt. aux Peaux, the formation is much 

 shattered, and embraces large concretionary masses several 

 feet in diameter, which easily separate in concentric layers. 

 A similar structure was afterwards seen at Thunder Bay 

 Island, forming domes twelve and a-half feet in diameter, 

 rising up through the rocky floor of the island. Here, 

 however, a distinct coralline structure was discovered, 

 which has led to the conviction that the structure at Stony 

 Point, is also organic. Numerous trilobites occur in the rocks 

 at Monguagon, in Wayne county, among which Phacops bufo 

 is conspicuous, iwo or three species of Euomphalus were seen 

 at Middle Island, and a very large Euomphaloid shell six or eight 

 inches across, has been ot tained from the west end of Lake 

 Erie. From Mackinac, besides Phacops bufo, Proctus (sp?) and 

 the other forms noticed by Prof. Ha11,f I have detected only a 

 CyathophyUoid coral. From Little Traverse Bay, I have Spiri- 



* " Fossil Fish.s from tb2 Devonian Rocks of Chio," in Bulletin of the National Institute, 

 Jan. 26, 1857. 



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