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(4) Parcels of the watery deposition in the hollow called 
Saint Michael’s Cave; some of them in the rough, and 
others neatly polished. 
(c) Select articles from the cavern just mentioned con- 
taining organic remains of 7 
A. The snails and other testaceous relics of ze Dosiay. 
B. Of the monkeys and other land remnants of the 
spot. | 
C. Of, among other memorable remains, a tooth, in 
admirable preservation, of the Barbary ape, or baboon.— 
C. A. Davis and Miss Crawford. 
9. The extraordinary fossil, termed by the finders the 
petrified ram’s horn; from the Helleberg, 12 miles N. W. 
of Albany; bedded in a silico-calcareous rock, a portion 
of which adheres to the relic. It has been decided that it 
is an enormous, probably an extinct spirula. The longest 
diameter is about nine inches, and the smaller six, or there- 
abouts. (See the particulars, with a figure, in Medical 
Repository, vol. x. p. 350.)—De Witt. 
10. Samples of petrified fish. 
(a) An admirable specimen from the mountains of Rio 
Janeiro, in Brazil, six inches long, by more than two inches 
broad. In calcareous rock.—Vaché. | 
(6) A complete form of a disinterred fish, from the fa- 
mous ichthyoparous mountain in the neighbourhood of 
Verona, Italy; six inches long, three inches broad.—Miss 
Nicholson. 
(c) Two specimens of the fossil impressions of fishes, 
from the vicinity of Connecticut River.—Bruen. 
(d) The semblance of a petrified fish, belonging to a 
species of tetrodon, or bellows fish; found on the shore of 
an y-hook, near the base of the Neversink Hills; but 

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" “f ape vale of the soil_—Captain White: 
_ (e) A rough specimen to illustrate the preceding. 
