6. A Caryophylla of a single star, about four inches long, of an irregularly transversely undulated surface, imperfect at each end, but seems to have been attached at base. Near the base it is bent at an angle of about 45 degrees.
Some small and young specimens of the Terebratula, like T. subundata of Sowerby.
Miliolites centralis. Say.
12. Astrea. A species of very minute alveoles. From the state of the petrifaction no radii are perceptible, so that the genus is not determinable.
Saltworks near Arrow Rock. Columnar segments of the Encrinus.
Inferior portion of the head of A. Pentramea. Say.
Segments of the column of an oval encrinus, much narrower in the middle than the oval vertebra of an encrinite represented by Parkinson, Vol. 2. pl. 13. f. 40.—resembling those of the genus Platycrinites of Miller.—James.
Footnotes to Chapter VI:
[139] For Bissel, see Cuming's Tour, in our volume iv, note 182.
Charles Pentland, of Pennsylvania, served during the War of 1812-15 as ensign and third lieutenant in the 4th Rifles. Retained in 1815, he was in 1821 transferred to the 6th Infantry, in which, two years later, he became captain. He was dismissed in 1826.—Ed.