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range, parallel to the Hudson River, all the route from 
Esopus to Albany.—J. Pierce. 
38. Lime-stone, abounding with shells. Crown Point, 
Lake Champlain, New-York. 
39. Lime charged with shells ; from the bank of Onion 
River, Burlington, Vermont.—Dr. J. E. Bliss. 
40. A series of specimens, showing the geognostic for- 
mation between Hudson River at Glenns Falls, and the 
Northern Lakes.—Milbert and Garin. 
41. A series of twenty specimens, primitive and secon- 
dary, showing the constitution and nature of the rocks at 
St. Johns, on the river Sorel ; at Montreal and its vicinity ; 
at St. Regis, up the river St. Lawrence, and some other 
Jocalities.—Professor Andrew Ellicot. 
42. An extensive and complete collection, amounting to 
more than fifty pieces of the specimens selected to dis- 
play the geognostic and mineral formation from Buffalo 
to Lewistown ; or in other words, to show the composition 
of the rocks between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, along 
Niagara River; consisting, among other articles, of the 
following :— 
(a) Pieces of the brittle shistic rock, underlaying the 
thick strata of fetid lime-stone at the cataract. 
(b) Fragments of the superincumbent rock over which - 
the water descends, and finally precipitates. 
(c) Fetid lime-stone, associated with blende, or sulphu- 
ret of zinc. 
(d) ‘The blende reduced, by cleavage, to its primitive 
form.—Torrey. 
(e) Six specimens of rhomboidal spar, mostly adhering 
to the aforesaid rock. 
(f) Two specimens of dog’s-tooth spar. 
(¢) ‘Two specimens of calcareous carbonate, in cubes. 
(4) Four of the whitish silicious nodules, found embed- 
ded in the lime-stone at the Falls; with crystals of quartz 
and calcareous carbonate. 
(7) Three other similar articles, 
