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the summit of the hill for two or three miles, reaching beyond the 
Connecticut. North of the village, it is 8. 15° E. ; among the houses, 
S. 41° E. ; and on the east side of the hill, S. 23°-25° E., in a valley 
leading to Unity. On the south slope of Green mountain, east of the 
village, are intersections of the almost east course with that of about 
S. 12° E. On the westerly side of the top of Bible hill, the most com- 
mon course is 8. 6° E., with S. 25° E. This is a half mile east from 
Brown’s, Clark’s, and Stone’s, where the westerly course has been 
noted. We now proceed three fourths of a mile northeast to the “ Flat 
Top,”’ a spur of the hill, with scarcely any depression between. At the 
commencement, where the northeast slope begins, are striz 8. 57° E., 
pointing back to Little Ascutney, and crossing others. S. 1° W. Next 
are some §, 46° E. pointing to Ascutney, apparently marked on the lee 
side of striz, pointing 8. 1° W. toS. 1° E. Another ledge has striz 
S. 46° E. crossed by others 8. 1° E.; then 8. 16° E. crossed by S. 41° 
E., and §. 51° E., the middle one the most common. Another ledge 
shows, in anarrow compass, the courses 8. 21°, 86°, 41°, and 57° E. 
Where the courses are so numerous, there is a marked tendency to ir- 
regularity ; the striee do not preserve their parallelism. <A change of 
10° or 15° degrees in direction will occur in a distance of less than a 
yard. Flat Top hill shows more of the irregularities than the highest 
summit to the southwest. Near the aqueduct, at the base of Flat Top, 
the course is 8. 17° E. 
Prof. E, D. Cope* described, from the Miocene of Oregon, Steneo- 
fiber gradatus, Entoptychus cavifrons, E. planifrons, E. crassiramis, 
Pleurolicus sulcifrons, Meniscomys hippodus, M. multiplicatus, Tem- 
nocyon altigenis, Canis cuspigerus, UC. geismarianus, Macherodus 
strigidens, M. brachyops, Anchitherium equiceps, A. brachylophum, 
A. longicristes, Stylonus seversus, Deodon shoshonensis, and Hyopo- 
tamus guyotianus. 
He described,+ from the Upper Miocene of Montana, Ticholeptus zy- 
gomaticus; from the Loup Fork beds of Kansas, Aphelops fossiger, A. 
malacorhinus, and Mylagaulus sesquipedalis; from the Green River 
Group, on Bear river, Wyoming, Priscacara oxyprion, P. pealet, P. 
clivosa, Dapedoglossus equipinnis ; and from Florissant, Colorado, Z’ri- 
chophanes foliarum; from the Pliocene of Oregon, Auchenia vitakeri- 
ana, Mylodon sodalis, Graculus macropus, Anser hypsibatus, and Cyg- 
* Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 
+ Bull. U.S. Geo. Sur. Terr., vol. iv. 
