lb 
process is still going on. During the last 16 years hundreds of acres have 
been thus reclaimed and filled up to grade with millions of tons of gravel 
brought in I 
by which 80 
are driven ir 
water mark, 
and stone h 
back of the < 
alluckul to, c 
trees Robury and 
and arc remarkable 
severely glaciated, : 
revealed groat bosses 
but I did not ohserv 
and tail " formation. 
The Boston Libra- 
persons living or sta 
for a book which is ] 
slip of paper, prov 
when the book is im 
allowed the first use 
■ I believe, annually - 
the different ra 
teres more will 
and a man is now being; carried out 
ai v:- 
ps out the 
to theN.W. 
other subur 1 
of Boston 
To secure the foundation, piles 
the sand and cut off below low 
rt of the city consisting of brick 
, really rests on timber. At the 
rboniferous conglomerate above 
ling a good soil for the growth of 
re situated on this formation 
sir woods. The surface has been 
\ cursory Walk over the district 
■'■hes moutqtmeesj in every direction, 
any of the hills exhibit the "crag 
Le western or north-western end. 
ely by the city, and open to all 
large . Sh ould any resident apply 
he need only write the title on a 
e, and hand it in to the Librarian, 
On its arrival he is informed and 
:1. The sum of 15,000 dollars is 
the support of this Institution. 
In the last paper which I read before the Geological Section and which 
appeared in the "Proceedings'' I gave an account of the beach at 
Barnstaple Bay. Among the sx^ecimens I then shewed, as the hon. sec. 
will recollect since he was good enough to mount one of them for me, were 
some fossil seeds, which I could not identify. I was obliged to leave the 
point open. A foot note to that paper showed the difficulty of recognising 
such objects with certainty.* It was therefore not a little interesting to 
me on my first walk out in the neighbourhood of Boston to accomplish what 
had previously baffled me. Crossing a §alt marsh near the town I picked 
up a few specimens of a small plant growing there, and while examining 
it, some of the ripe seed dropped out into my hand, when I immediately 
recognised them as the very same with my unknown species from Devon 
shire, having the same form, colour and size. On referring to books 1 
found it to be Atriplax patula, which is I believe a common English plant. 
?diat3ly ordered, 
the boo]-; for pe: 
;ed bv the citv f 
* See Vol- VII, pt. 2, p. 18. 
