Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-10-06
OLE EOSSIIS

we announced. few days ago, the inten.
ton of MIR. Bogert, fthis city. TO pat To press
a'olsne OF observations on extraneous fossils
ana D,iueraiLed remains of animals and we're
tables i'll the United States. The more We re
uect on the uainre OF the work and the research
necessary TO give il due weight, together yith
the vast field for observation, the more we are
satisfied II Will he a work of great internal =
j he fact is, that without taking a range an
expansive as the United States, there exists in
this state alone, sufficient matter of interest on
geology, to form work cfitseif
IN .uuchH : Dissertations upOu the Ge,loru nj
North AmericG which accompany tho late i'm
preston of Curiers Theory of the Earth. men
ton is made of the petritied Shell fish found i'm
digging out some OF the new streets within the
city "f New York They cxis, i'm detached
masses as ii broug,ltinto their present situation
by wafer. and not in solid LAYERS of rock and
tuey appear TO have belonged to animals Thai
once inhabited the ocean
Though these organic relics are scattered o.
yer the island OF New York i'll many places, yet
they are most abundant near Corlaer's Hook
III me seventh and tenth wards OF the CIV
various specimens of these productions have
oeeh eNhihited IN TIE Lyceum Ut Natural dis
tory, DN tue members, aud ia be see by tie
Curious in their museum Some of Them are
contained IN lnmps or masses OF ferruSimious
quartz, and OF a sort of siliciOus iron stone
mingled with clay. These are OF different
degrees Si sodity, some being hard and com
pact, aud others quite friabe and easy 10
ciumOie. The animal remains are sometimes
distributed spariTgly through t!ie body Of The
stones and rocks, aud in other cases thev con.
siitnte the principal part OF tie fossil VGs,i.eS
OF scailops, heart shells .coTailines pine worms
ierebratuias and anoniiaS abound la the she.
c!eS lately discovered bY the industrious and
fortunate researches 0fthe Rev T. Schaotjer
Peters Townsend, Nj. u. aud Ezekiel Il. Ban.
doiue. NJ. ID.
More recently another parcel OF orsanic re.
mains has been detected by James Pierce Eso.
near Corlaers, Hook, sixty feet beneath the
surface, and hedded in hard calcarious c;,,bo.
nate, or lime stone. Among Others, are yery
singular madrepores aud eucrinites, a beau;i
iui helix, gryphite, with aDomias ana cardi.
ums.
The species of creatures, several Of which
are not now known 10 exist in living state.
whose relics have thus been brought TO view
within the city OF New York, are at least tioe,,.
ty, and WILL probably, by ii further and more
strict examination, much exceed that number.
"A highly remarkable trait in their character
Is, that they all bear a near resemblance TO the
productions OF the same class fOnn NORTH of
he HI GLANDS. tits the opinion ofDr. RIitchiil.
that they were brought from the upper dis
trict III the n0dules or boulders, rolled down
By the mighty food which drained the lake
that anciently overspread the regiou along the
tishkilt, the Waikiki, aud the whole country
TO the fails OF the Hudson and besides their
detached aud water worn forms, thev iAvaria
Dly overay the older deposits of the ocean for
the real strata Of the great sea- are always ipfe
rior TO these modern alluyions that have been
snperinduced by inland agents.
". Y. Nat. Adv,