NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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The species are — Elephas primu/enius (determined by Br. Falconer) in 

 the embedded lump of Tertiary rock, Pectnnculus Plwmsteadiensis, Na- 

 tica glicimeroides, and lluslellaria Soiverbii (determined by Mr. Prest- 

 wich). — Ed. Geol. 



Gallic Canoe. — The dredgings in the Seine have brought to light the 

 interesting remains of a canoe fashioned of the t runic of a Lice, b\ metres 

 long, and 85 centimetres broad in the middle, and attributed by the French 

 antiquarians to the Gallic era. In the same place seventeen pieces of 

 Gallic money, a knife, a Hint axe, and various pieces of pottery were found 

 at the same time. 



Lead Ore. — A vein of lead-ore has been discovered at Port Jervis, 

 Orange County, N. Y., containing 80 per cent, of pure lead, and six feet 

 w ide by eight feet deep, in the Oneida Sandstone. 



Mammalian Remains. — Dr. Buckland records, in the Geological So- 

 ciety's Transactions, vol. iv. p. 287, the discovery of " four large and 

 entire tusks of elephants," in a garden opposite the chalk pit at the base 

 of Loam-pit Hill, and on the north side of the turnpike-road. They were 

 for some time (1817) in the possession of Mr. Lee, the owner of the ex- 

 tensive brick-works there. 



Norfolk Broads, — Sir, — I should be much obliged if you could inform 

 me of the origin of our "Norfolk Broads." They are, as the name im- 

 plies, broad, comparatively shallow, sheets of water of various extent, 

 generally a few miles only from the sea, and partially overgrown with 

 reeds, etc. 1 have myself a suspicion that they are in some way connected 

 with the Crag sea. — Yours truly, Charles Jicks, jun. 



P.S. — It may be as well to add that the " Broads" above-named have, I 

 believe, always some connection with a tidal river. 



Woodlands, Thorpe, near Norwich, March 23. 



Disturbance of the Sea. — The ' Grahamstown Journal ' (February, 

 ISO;}) makes the following statement : — "A farmer named Elliott, residing 

 m ar Gusha River, while crossing the mouth of the Keiskama, a few days 

 since, noticed an eruption in the sea, which was violently agitated and 

 forced upwards as from the spouting of a whale. On approaching the spot 

 as closely as possible, he perceived that a dense body of smoke rose as 

 from a crater, and when the tide threw the surf over the spot it was im- 

 mediately thrown some forty or fifty yards into the air, the water, for the 

 circumference of half a mile, assuming the colour of the blackest ink. 

 This continued for some fifteen minutes, and gradually died away with a 

 rumbling sound." 



Ebeata. — Sir, — The note " On a Progressive Change in the Form of 

 the Earth," page 110 of the number for q 

 March, is, I am sorry to find, unintelligible, 

 in consequence of the omission from the 

 diagram of letters referred to in the text. 

 The diagram ought to have been thus 

 marked. — George Hamilton. 



Queen's Coltcj/e, Liverpool, March 8/A, 1803. 



Errata. — Black down Greensand. — In 

 Plate 111. Sidmouth and Lyme Regis are 

 interchanged as to positions. 



Kkuyta. — In Plate III. figs. 1 and 5 are transposed, 

 lepis scale; fig. 5. Holoptychius scale. 



Ekkata in Taijle of Hikd Ukm.uns. — The x to Cohu'iii.v is put in 

 the Maestricht instead of in the luxrnc column, ami the x to PcrdtXW 

 the Eocene instead of in the Miocene column ; the P to Qallus and the ? 



1 is Glypto- 



