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At Victoria, B. C, Pleistocene fossils from fifteen to twenty feet 

 above sea level were collected. These fossils were in a clay, and 

 in the attitude of growth. The clay was sprinkled with glaciated 

 rock fragments and pebbles, and lay on rock deeply grooved by the 

 Pleistocene glaciers. The following species were collected: — Leda 

 fossa, Macoma lata, Saxicava rugosa, Puncturella galeata, Cardium 

 islandicum, Buccinum plectrum. About half a mile inland from 

 this locality, washed ledges with dragged beach pebbles fifty feet 

 above sea level were found. 



The summer of 1909 was spent at Rockland, Maine. About 

 two miles west of the Harbor of Rockland, at an altitude ranging 

 from 95 to 115 feet above sea level, Pleistocene marine fossils in 

 clay containing a few striated pebbles were found. The most 

 important fossils were two species of ophiuroids, Ophiura sarsii 

 and 0. nodosa, as kindly identified by Dr. H. L. Clark. The 

 other fossils were mostly species of Mya, Saxicava, and Leda. 

 The clay was stratified and between it and the bed-rock ten feet 

 of sand and gravel occurred in alternating layers. The sand and 

 gravel were deeply oxidized and lay on well-striated limestone. 

 The directions of the striae averaged south 1° west (corrected). 

 Good evidences of wave action at 235 feet above sea level were 

 obtained in various places, but the most convincing evidence was 

 the cross section of a beach at that elevation. 



Some wood partly changed to lignite was found in sandy clay near 

 Rockland, but its age is uncertain. 



