James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1James, Edwin
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James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1
James, Edwin
Indians of North America; Rocky Mountains; United States -- Discovery and exploration; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
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.
It is composed of small spherical granules in contact with
each other, which, in their fracture, exhibit rather a
concentric tendency, with the appearance of a central nucleus;
but we could not perceive any decided evidences of former
organization in them. Imbedded in the mass are a few columnar
segments of encrinites, and a portion of a compressed bivalve,
which, in the form of its radiating lines, resembles a pecten.
From Charbonière:--
A specimen in argillaceous sandstone of a portion of a leaf
like the nelumbium. It is only the middle portion of the
impression of the leaf that remains, being of an oval form of
about five inches in greatest diameter, the rest being broken
away; the stalk has been broken off at the junction of the
leaf.
Productus spinosus. SAY.
A small species of terebratula, in width two-fifths, and in
length more than seven-tenths of an inch--an internal
cast--individuals very numerous, varying much in size, the
smallest being about one-fifth of an inch wide.
From the Mammelles near St. Charles:--
Productus: a portion of a valve, and smaller portion of the
opposite valve of a remarkably large species, of which the
proportions may have been not dissimilar to that of the Ency.
Meth. pl. 244. fig. 5. The striæ are similar to those of that
shell, except in being somewhat smaller; and the groove of one
valve, and consequent elevation of the other, not so profound,
less abrupt, and more angular in the middle, and far less
prominent on the edge of the shell. It may justly be named
_grandis_, as its hinge width was more than 3-1/2 inches.--JAMES.
[110] The town established here was Osage City. In 1823 it was
described as still "nearly in a state of nature." The present
population is about five hundred.--ED.
[111] Moreau's Creek (River à Morou, Marrow Creek, Murrow Creek)
flows from the south. Moreau signifies "extremely black."
Just above Cedar Island is Jefferson City (Missouriopolis on the
map,) the state capital.--ED.
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