152 LIFE OF THE PLEISTOCENE 



Ontario County. Seneca, beneath marl and diatomaceous earth, about 

 3 feet from the surface. 



Livingston County. Geneseo, mixed with marl and fresh water shells, a 

 few feet below the surface; Nunda, Scottsburg, and Fowlerville. 



Genesee County. Stafford, beneath muck, on clay and sand; Leroy, in bed 

 of marl; Batavia. 



Tompkins County. Near Ithaca, in deposit of modified drift. 



Orleans County. Halley, in excavation for Erie canal. 



Niagara County. Niagara Falls, in fine gravel and loam containing fresh 

 water shells; found in digging a mill race on Goat Island, 12-13 feet below the 

 surface. 



Wyoming County. Pike; Attica, in unlaminated clay, 2-3 feet beneath 

 surface, overlaid by clayey muck and loam. 



Cattaraugus County. Hinsdale, with remains of deer (elk?), 16 feet below 

 surface, in gravel and sand. 



Chautauqua County. Jamestown, in muck, a little below present level 

 of Lake Chautauqua, associated with bones of elk; Westfield, on pavement of 

 heavy boulders, and under several feet of black clayey muck; at Levant, four 

 miles east of Jamestown, leaves have been reported between layers of clay at 

 a depth of 15 or 20 feet. 102 The vertical section at this locality is reported to 

 be as follows: 



Yellow sand 4 ft. in. 



Quicksand 4 



Yellow clay 5 



Blue clay 70 



Hardpan x x 



Total 79 4 



The hardpan is probably referable to the old drift thot to be Kansan. 

 (Why may it not be Illinoian?). 



Staten Island. A mastodon's molar tooth, associated with twigs and cones 

 of Picea canadensis, in a deposit two feet thick, 8 feet below the surface, was 

 found in a Moravian cemetery at New Dorp. The locality is a swamp and is 

 1200 feet from the margin of the moraine. Whether this deposit is pre- or 

 post- Wisconsin has not been stated. 



Additional records are, Lisle, near Binghamton, Broome County; 103 Geneva, 

 Ontario County; 104 Belvidere, Alleghany County. 105 



The remains of mastodons, as well as of other mammals, are usually found 

 in clay or marl beneath a bed of muck or peat. 



] ° 2 Reis, Bull. N. Y. State Mus., Ill, No. 12, p. 103. 

 103 Amer. Journ. Sci., (iii), X, p. 390, 1875. 

 1M Hitchcock, Science, VI, p. 450, 1885. 

 ]M Amer. Geol., XXXIII, p. 60. 



