DOWLINO. 
OEKERAL DESCRIPTION’ 
17 F 
Ilalysites catenularia ; Lyellia mperha ; Zaphrentis Slokesii ; Pycnos- List of fossils. 
iylus fJ^^gans ; Pycnmfylm Gudpliemiit ; Favosiics Gothlandica ; 
Faironken JJisingeri; ,Stroma(ofX>rold up. imlet. ; Crinaidea tip. iaael. ; 
FtnicsteUahvharctica; Trimerclla Ekwancnsis ; Strophodonia sp. iiuJet.; 
Pleckimbimites lriinifv/:rsalis ; Spirifer sp. imicL. ; Raticidaria $epten- 
trionalis ; M6ris(in/t (if) cxpa7i8a-; fieliculnrla sp. indot. : Glassia 
vanahilis : Airy pa reticidaris \ Camarotrrchia EktraasvHw ; Am- 
honychia undidata ; Amhonychia septentrwnalis ; Myfilarca per- 
noides; CfcnPlionCa t}u hpvafa ; Euomphalopterus sp. indet.; Moga- 
lomphnJn robnsla ; Sa^pingostoma hnreale \ Gyy-oiiema speciosum ; 
Gproueina Dowlingii] brevispira: Jy 0 .vonema sp. indet. ; 
Orthnnychla ohlusa ; Plntyopras; coinpachiai : Strophostylus ainplus ; 
Slrophoiitylas inllaius ; Strophoi-lyliis filic'nielus : Endvccra^ (or A^anno) 
sp. indet. ; Kionocoras cancellation ; Orthoccras Ekwanense : Ortho- 
cera.8 sp. indet.; /'hragmoceraslin^olatum ; Illa nns sp. indot.; Bronteiis 
Ekivanensis •, Bronteus aguiiotiariti ; and Ceranrns Tanjuinius. 
For nearly* four miles above the portage the eunont i.s swift and 
several small rapid-s occur, the largest of which has a full of thn>e. feet. 
At thirteen inile.s from the portage is another rapid where the e.xposed 
rock ia a thinly bediied limestone in n low anticline, the axis of which 
runs N.K, and S.W. A steady swift current is met all the way to 
Flint rapid, thirty miles above the portage, but the banks are in places 
partly overgrown with grass and the edge of the slope fringed with 
willow, lloth species of poplar begin^o make their appearance, and 
some trec.s ai-e of fair size. In the lower reaches the banks are for the 
most part bare and clay, with boulder pavemontvs near the stream. 
All the exposure.s of the clay contain marine .shells near the top, Marine shells, 
from which the following .species were collected : — Saxicava rngosa, 
Mya trmicata, Maconia calcarea and Cardiian ciliatum. 
No definite Itouldor clay was seen, as it is covered by the marine clay 
and the constant sliding from the surface conceals the underlying beds. 
'Pho Flint rapids are not more pronouncerl than many of the others, 
but .as the river has cut partly through aperies of beds of yellowish 
gray limestone, in which there are many inclusions of chert, the Tndian.s 
have named the rapid “ Piwana poweatik " or Flint rapid. 
The country on either .side is about ten feet above the sti eani. Poplar 
shows in spots and occasionally clumps of large black Spruce, but 
these are generally on the i.slandH or prominent points of the river banks. 
What is called Upper or Last rapid is a small fall of two feet, nine possiln col- 
miles above Flint rapid, where the river flows over thin beds of lime- h'cted at 
„ Last rapid. 
