882 Opinions upon Clay Stones and Concretions, [ 
It must be stated, however, that this reproduction is correct 
part only, because many of the intervals amount to less than 
semitone, and cannot therefore be expressed by the customary 
system of musical notation. o 
Among the Eskimos near Bering strait the intonatióa a M 
similar. A sergeant of the U. S. Army who was stationed near 
Norton sound, repeated the songs to me. Even the senseless 
text is the same with the exception that the a in ah ja is more 
like a”: with other words it is entirely nasal. It seems that in 
former times the southern Greenlanders had a similar song. The — 
well-known Eskimo Joe sang for me a series of notes the shades | 
of which could doubtless be analyzed with the aid of a series of : 
Hemholtz’s resonators. Parry furnishes in his “Second voyage — 
for the discovery of a Northwest passage” (p. 542), the song of 
the inhabitants of Winter island. Although decidedly lugubrious 
some of these phrases nevertheless move over two and a half in- 
tervals. The text is Amna Aya Aya Amna ah, similar to that of 
the Itanese and the other inhabitants of Greenland. 
From these brief remarks it may be seen. that the Inuit from 
West Greenland to the shores of Bering strait possess a common : 
ancient song, a song which in the course of time has undergone 
less modification than even their language. ; 
ae = 
A SS oa SE Re = r S et ay a 
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OPINIONS UPON CLAY STONES AND CONCRETIONS i 
BY L. P. GRATACAP. i 
“Besa! dogs, clay stones or clay concretions are terms ge : 
ently applied to a singular class of objects which occ 4 
clay beds of recent or Quaternary age, in spots where a | 
favorable for their development have existed. They © ps 
strike the eye as remarkable in their curious mimicry sity d 
shapes of birds and beasts, and in the capricious comple Hor 
their forms. The question inevitably provoked by them 
were they made? has received an answer of a generic ¢ : 
including under one process the phenomena of sp ae at 
lava, septaria in iron ores, flints in chalk, nodules in ‘seit 
peastone in limestones, the hexagonal columns of basalt, the sag ya 
ture of granite boulders, geodes of quartz, me a ape 
pyrites and the simple and complicated shapes sho Pig once 
accompanying plates, viz., by concretionary action. “0 - 
