612 Extracts from the Minute Book of the Geological Society. 
town of Milford, in Connecticut. It is a serpentine rock. The 
whole country in the neighbourhood is of a primitive formation, 
consisting principally of gneiss and granite alternating with primi- 
tive limestone. A stratum of the serpentine, several yards wide, 
runs between the limestone. It extends for several miles, accom- 
panied with asbestos, amianthus, and diallage. The quarry is exten- 
sively worked. 
The serpentine has considerable resemblance to the vert antique ; 
the green parts, which are the most abundant, are of serpentine. 
Veins of white calcareous spar run through it, and also black pieces 
of chromate of iron. From this latter circumstance, Dr. Meade is 
induced to think, that all the noble or green serpentines are coloured 
by the green oxide of chrome. 
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1817, May 16. 
An extract of a letter was read, from Mr. John Hanton of Lick- 
bey in the Rosses, addressed to T. F. Berger, m.d. giving an ac- 
count of the effects of the Storm of Dec. 4, 1811, in which the 
Saldanher was lost in Lough Swilly. 
<c I have made very particular enquiry relative to the kind of fisli 
cast out by the storm of the 4th of last December on this coast, 
and the circumstances attendant thereon. On the shores of the 
isle Anasmor, lobsters, craw-fish, sea carp (called in Irish ballan) 
ling, heach, glamin, whiting, haddock, sprat, cod, and pollock, were 
cast on shore. On the shores of the main land, all the above 
kinds (except lobsters and craw-fish) with the addition of eels 
large and small, and a brown kind of fish about fourteen inches 
long, never before noticed here, with a large head and small body, 
supposed a mullet. The maws and gills of all were quite 
filled with sand, whence it would appear that from the furious 
