274 On the occurrence of Fossiliferous Strata in the (Match, ? 
which were Flutes with four or five stops, like the Pipes of Shep — 
herds; with these they played not in consort, but singly, and 
tuned them to Sonnets, which they composed in meetre, the sub — 
ject of which was love, and the Passions which arise from the 
Favours or Displeasures of a Mistress. These Musicians were 
Indians trained up in that art for divertisement of the Jncas, and 
the Curacas, who were his Nobles, which, as rustical and bar- 
barous as it was, it was not common, but acquired with great 
Industry and Study. 
“Every Song was set to its proper Tune; for two Songs of 
different subjects could not correspond with the same Aire, by 
reason that the Musick which the Gallant made on his Flute, was — 
designed to express the satisfaction or discontent of his Mind, 
which were not so intelligible perhaps by the words as by the 
melancholy or chearfulness of the Tune which he plaid.” i 
The Bureau of Ethnology at Washington is now making 
preparations for the collection of data relating to the music and 
musical instruments of the various peoples of the new world, 
and many facts of an interesting nature will doubtless shortly be | 
given to the scientific world in the hitherto comparatively untroè : 
den field of native American music. i 
ON THE OCCURRENCE OF FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA 
IN THE LOWER PONENT (CATSKILL) GROUP 
OF MIDDLE PENNSYLVANIA! | 
BY E. W. CLAYPOLE. a 
ipe Catskill group of New York has been hitherto e 
palæontological desert in American geology. Though ™ e 
time and labor have been spent upon it by different geologist 
little, I may almost say nothing, has thus far rewarded oe : 
abor. Here and there a few traces of life have been discov™ | 
but these traces, faint and few as they were, have in many 1 
stances ended in disappointment, and now forty years after co 
establishment of the group by Professor Hall, the Cats 
remains, even more than it was then, a great desert. The . 
dant life-remains that continue in New York to the veiy A 
the Chemung there cease altogether. The abounding wealth 
the Lower Carboniferous, especially in the West, sets in aS? 
1 Abstract of a paper read before the American ‘Association for the Advance 
of Science at Montreal, in August, 1882. 
