. Agriculture of New York : comprising an account of the classification, composition and distribution of the soils and rocks ... together with a condensed view of the climate and the agricultural productions of the state. Agriculture; Soils; Fruit-culture. 70 FOSSILS OF THE TACON1C The date in which 111i•» specimen was found is rather coarse, and somewhat unlike the fine green laconic date. I' is ii"i easilj -|»1 it into lamina', and hence ii will be difficult to • tin the fossils it may possibly contain. It was found in Brunswick. Rensselaer county, by my friend Dr. Skilton of Tr
. Agriculture of New York : comprising an account of the classification, composition and distribution of the soils and rocks ... together with a condensed view of the climate and the agricultural productions of the state. Agriculture; Soils; Fruit-culture. 70 FOSSILS OF THE TACON1C The date in which 111i•» specimen was found is rather coarse, and somewhat unlike the fine green laconic date. I' is ii"i easilj -|»1 it into lamina', and hence ii will be difficult to • tin the fossils it may possibly contain. It was found in Brunswick. Rensselaer county, by my friend Dr. Skilton of Troy. That the above fossD \\a^ the tube of an annelide, is of course suggested by the circum- • e that animals of this class are found in this rock : the idea is in keeping with this . and probably would uot have been thought of independently. It is evident, however, that the annelides yel discovered in the Taconic rocks were naked, or did not construct iuIk-s for their habitations : BO that it is not supposed that this relict was the tube of one of the species which I have figured and described. Should no farther discoveries in fossils be made, the Taconic system will present a very nlai and remarkable condition: tin' animal kingdom being represent* d for a long period by a single fragment, and that fragment belonging to one of its obscurest families, yet not the lowest in the scale of organization; but the most striking peculiarities consist in the r'-markabh1 forms here preserved, and the absence of all others which multIm serve to connect them with the known parts of tin' series. The Jfereites and congeners standing, as it were by themselves, the sole representatives of one of the kingdoms of nature! Sub- sequently each geological period or era had many fi>rm*. typical of many divisions of the animal kingdom. But here, the entire absence of those fornix which become so abundant at tin- very commencement of the succeeding system, is, to say the [east, extremely in-
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