TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 
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iliich has been worked out in some detail by M. Adolphe Homer, who i. still occu¬ 
pied in that labour and in completing a map of this highly complicated tract, was in 
»general sense approved of. But in a future communication, the author and his 
companion Prif. Morris, will endeavour to show, in relation to one of the opinions <>f 
M Homer, that in reality all the strata in the Harz, including the Wistful) «ch slates, 
‘i) be foundI to occupy the same relative position bs in the region of tin- Rhine, 
oie chief object of Sir R, Murchison in revisiting the Harz region wan to deter* 
if certain rocks in its eastern extremity, which have bren laid down ;m<l 
a* 8ilurian by M. Adolphe Homer, are really of that age: he reminded his 
'tor* Ihfit it was just in this tract that Prof. Sedgwick and thr author himself 
‘- vpaieii hneen years ago that the oldest rock* of the chain would b> found. 'J'he 
V Bwr l “ e f C3sl,s which decide the case is (hie to M. Ja -che of Klsinbtirg, and 
i*u, ° Magdespning. In qm small baa of limeatone (notexceeding 10 feet 
Jmirr i j- BU "°, r ^* nalc t,J ’1 R * slates on.the N.K. flank of the mountains, the 
•iiJ'r.JV uncovered fossils of the genera Or/hit, Terebrntuh, /.■; <r.,n, Spi- 
rrihhtes, &•<.■., few of which IK British Specie*, tin.ugh OlheV* 
^'ipuermn»e-i^ *d efl hfi e d with Bohemian fossils described by Bnrnuule from 
•iicbeL ' ma " sta S e f- At Magdesjirung the limestone subordinate to a great 
*cl a i,d ,}„,^r k V c h:*t and flagstone was formerly alluded to by Prof. Sedg- 
fj KTinitC8. , h * n their hurried vide dele tod no organic remains except 
*C'Ly M.'/inJL, •Y W ,* re aware *hat Trilubites hod been found there many years 
Vi di«V r lym,,''' ng to the mineral aspect of these schists and limestones 
•»b» of which nr * n ’he Harz, and judging from the fossil*, the greater 
’■** mthor beliovps^ , tj 'P 0S more “icient than those of ony known Devonian rock, 
Vnj>U at several nik t S ra t uwac ke around Hnrzgerode, in which limestones 
*^f^Kdonthe Rnmn lo i Ce3 besides, may be referred to tlic uppermost Silurian, 
U «TJ , 1 .:. ame ,eve l US one of flip hhrluwl Kl.-Iiroa i,f \t H i,1„ Tl... Il..„ 
M, 
£rf y5de "tifi«l bv'ilu>K T hnind that the Wissenbach and Caub slates bad been 
‘.'"icnia! h a a i.„„, ro hmidberger through a communiiv of fossils, and 
with the Ki-n? U,U "i* 1 typ'dina schists of Nassau; thus identifying 
le 8i°n is ono vStuf°!' ^‘’stpl.alia. The most striking new'dis- 
• sandstorm w- l , '^ onmn l ocks, consisting of ascending 
rgc nl anla l7r: ,hn ^ s l nU ‘ s hlifel limestone, See. In these 
"Pon the Iwi; UI 7 Mt V ,mvc bcrn discovered, and ns they 
’•M the P* “?*• ,Uan roc K ’hoy are considered to be of the Lower 
ftTi- * frniinn tv >1 
fr 2V5fi> ‘"li' 1 Thi i ,in Pcvwald, Sir Roderick then 
/'itit-d ,1, ^he-todto lie«». ,/l H ' ml, y to tin? enormous thickness of their 
frit; ,W <>f sup„oS tll ( ,e Low,,r . !u, ‘l Snndstonp of England). He 
frilly dSST 1 us fo 'md^at Whiu n f,P rec,nWc “>no«n« of coal occurs in this 
» H J««tn C f matrix, mill 1 ‘ lm ‘" nu a »d other places being in r 
^dsTl.^esof ^. e,U '‘^y beneath all tl. c red rock. 
beneath all tl.c red rocks Vtlmuglf "1“ ^3 
tfr CL?** * SicirirS"_ ,n .. Ml Tdivisions of the Uotho^todte 
Vrmian 
in 
^fribed 7 "* wl ‘ich, in Sax .vi n> ,' 18K ’ nB uf lhc “ Rothe-todtc 
W, On a s , Ucl ‘ by Outbid-’ ,' i' V •*'”** afl " r dvd the remarkable Permian 
C P, <Vh° ,b ^ hnnd ,^Ttlr ° mVlt iM ,lwil 4 Pernnscl.e SvstJ in 
u fr 0 * 1 a bo r i n a ol ‘ about ! lcur *»«ch, these ud n>, k« have 
at «<*0 ren,’b*, l ” 11 ‘‘ 111 ,ff ", ,rnit ‘ ( ' f “»d at 
^ingfflp? 2ll °0f O ot more Th^f U '.‘ r 7 .'‘ph*mer«te summits, has 
gtlle Carbonifc roUs series C ‘ 0l ° ln this Uwtr 1{ cd Sandstone, 
