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gist> as t<> obstruct and delay the general acceptance <»f the great 
work of Emmons. 
After the intervention of Barrande in favor of Dr. Emmons, all 
his critics were at sea, swimming in every direction to escape 
from their untenable position of the transfer of the primordial 
fauna above the second ; but at the same time taking good care 
to ignore all the observations of Emmons and his friends. How- 
ever, all their efforts at classification have continued to be most 
helplessly incorrect ; they have oscillated from one error to another. 
and they have done nothing during the last thirty years but to nul- 
lify all the time what they have proposed themselves, changing year 
after year their curious classifications and nomenclatures. All 
their creation of great faults — such as in the rear of the citadel 
of Quebec, in front of the citadel, in the bed of the St. Lawrence 
river, at Wolfe's rove (called a, profound fault), east of forts Nos. 
2 and :; ( called an overlapping fault ). at Cape Rouge, St. Foix. 
Quebec city, island of Orleans. Montmorency Falls. Washington 
county. New York: Georgia. Vermont, etc.: their creation of 
great and continuous synclinal and anticlinal axes: their crea- 
tion of fosiliferous limestone-conglomerate with Calciferous fossils 
in the matrix and Lower Taconic fossils in the pebbles at Pointe 
Li' vis. which are not at all conglomerates; their creation of 
equivalency and synchronism of strata, such as Pointe Levi*. 
Phillipsburgh, Port Cassin and Shoreham groups identified with 
the normal and typical Calciferous of the geological survey of New 
York ; the citadel hill of Quebec identified with the Trenton of 
Montmorency falls: the Taconic slates of Emmons eastward of 
Albany, composed of 5,000 feet of strata without the true Lor- 
raine fauna and containing a supra-primordial fauna, identified 
with the 1,000 feet of the typical Lorraine shales, etc.: all such 
creations and empirical explanations are mere expedients. Being- 
unable to agree among themselves on anything acceptable without 
suppositions absolutely baseless, they are reduced to call to their 
help British classificators and British palaeontologists, who ignored 
the primordial fauna and ail the true stratigraphial sequence of 
the Lower palaeozoic rocks, until Barrande went to their islands, in 
1 850, to point them out. 
But passionate men. as well in geology as in any other human 
pursuit do not see the fine character of their position, and it is 
useless to expect a reasonable surrender of mistakes unequalled 
