156 The American Geologist. March, 1903. 
This gorge on Salmon river is directly comparable with the 
gorge below the Nash mine. It demonstrates that the max- 
imum extension of the Union creek glacier occurred as far 
back as the maximum of glaciation on the Salmon river side. 
Being mutually corroborative the}- make out a pretty strong 
case that there are glacial deposits in this region much older 
than those which I have formerly described. 
My observation of glaciation in the Sierra Nevada region 
was confined to the vicinity of the Yosemite valley. At the top 
of the Nevada falls I was impressed by the insignificant eros- 
ion accomplished by the Merced river since the striation of the 
granite. This point was, I believe, about twelve miles from 
the head of the Merced glacier and the striae do not by any 
means represent the dying stages of the glacier. All the post- 
glacial rock cutting that I observed about the Yosemite val- 
ley is directly comparable with that accomplished at the upper 
falls of the South Fork of Salmon river. The glacial phenom- 
ena of the Sierra Nevada region, with the exception of those 
apparently older deposits described by Turner, date from the 
same glacial stage as the deposits on Union creek above the 
point which is one and one-half miles from its mouth, and 
above the moraine which crosses the valley of Coffee creek 
one and one-half miles from its head. 
Is it not probable that the older glacial deposits and the 
associated rock gorges described in this paper represent a dis- 
tinct stage of glaciation of a pre-Wisconsin age? 
Berkeley^ Calif., Jan. 10, 190^. 
A NEWLY-FOUND METEORITE FROM MOUNT 
VERNON, CHRISTIAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY. 
By Gborgb p. MerriI-L, Washington, D. C. 
The National Museum has recently come into possession 
of a heretofore undescribed meteorite from the farm of Capt. 
S. T. Fruit, in Mount Vernon township, about seven miles 
northeast of Hopkinsville in Christian county, Kentucky. The 
meteorite, which is a pallasite, has been known for some thirty- 
five years by the occupant of the premises, where it served as 
a convenient stone on which to clean his boots after crossing 
the muddy fields. Although recognized as of a peculiar type 
