[106] The hero of this exploit was a Frenchman bearing the name of Baptiste Louis Roi.—Ed.
[107] Miegia macrosperma of Persoon.—James.
[108] The Nishnebottona (Nishnabotna) enters the Missouri in Atchison County, in the northwest corner of the state. See post, note 166.—Ed.
[109] From Bay Charles Hill, four miles below Hannibal, Missouri, we received, through Dr. Sommerville, several organic remains. Among them are the following:—
Carbonate of Lime.
One specimen contains exclusive quantities of segments of the encrinite of small diameter, from one-fourth of an inch down to minute.
Another specimen also, with numerous small encrinites, has a very wide and short radiated productus.
Another specimen, a grayish chert, containing cavities formed by the solution and disappearance of encrinites. The parts of these which were originally hollow when in the state of carbonate of lime, being subsequently filled with chert, now show the nature of the fossil, being cylindrical cavities, with a solid centre and transverse partitions, the largest three-tenths of an inch wide.
From Rector's-hill, adjoining the village of Clarksville, Missouri, from Dr. Sommerville's collection:—
A specimen of oolite—carbonate of lime.