Note to page 506 {omitted.)
Professor Jameson having been requested to examine the specimens of limestone
collected, on the shores of Lake Winipeg, and in the Cumberland-House district,
obligingly sent the following note :
“ ^ le specimens of limestone received from you contain examples of the following fossil organic remains:
1. Limestone with encrinites. The encrinites are in fragments. 2. L. with orthoceratites.
3. L. with terebratula.
4. L. with caryophyllita.
5. L. with lingula.
These fossils would seem to intimate that the rock in which they are contained belongs to the Mountain
limestone formation, by many referred to the transition, by others to the oldest secondary class of rocks." or deepest part of the
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