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Those which I examined near the A. S. Juan were much worn: they consisted of Mactra Isabellei, d'Orbigny, mingled with few of Venus sinuosa, Lam., both inhabiting, as I am informed by M. d'Orbigny, brackish water at the mouth of the Plata, nearly or quite as salt as the open sea.
Streams must once, though historically unknown, have flowed in them; and M. d'Orbigny argues from the presence of undissolved salt over the whole surrounding country, that the streams must have arisen from rain or snow having fallen, not in the adjoining country, but on the now arid Cordillera.
I heard, also, of beds of shells on the Somborombon, and on the Rio Salado, at which latter place, as M. d'Orbigny informs me, the Mactra Isabellei and Venus sinuosa are found. Mr. Res." page 35 and Dr.
As the boulder formation extends with nearly the same height 150 miles south of 53 degrees 20', the most southern point where I landed and found upraised shells; and as the level Pampas ranges many hundred miles northward of the point, where M. d'Orbigny found at the height of 100 feet beds of the Azara, the space in a north and south line, which has been uplifted within the recent period, must have been much above the 1,180 miles.
Kent collected for me some silicified wood and shells out of the concretions in the sandstone from Tome, situated a short distance north of Lirguen. They consist of: Natica australis, d'Orbigny, "Voyage, Part Pal." 2. Mactra Araucana, d'Orbigny, "Voyage, Part Pal." 3. Trigonia Hanetiana, d'Orbigny, "Voyage, Part Pal." 4.
"Finally, in the case that Madame d'Orbigny can do nothing for us, I will have recourse to a last resource." "What is it, mamma?" "It is a very weak one a very foolish hope, perhaps; but why not try it? the son of M. de Saint Remy is " "M. de Saint Remy has a son!" cried Claire, with astonishment. "Yes, my child, he has a son." "He never spoke of him he never came to Angers."
He therefore, as well as M. Alcide d'Orbigny, who had carefully studied the fossils, came to the opinion that it was an upper member of the Cretaceous group. It is usually in the form of a coarse yellowish or whitish limestone, and the total thickness of the series of beds already known is about 100 feet.
Pecten Patagoniensis, d'Orbigny, "Voyage, Pal." 5. Venus Munsterii, d'Orbigny, "Voyage, Pal." Arca Bonplandiana, d'Orbigny, "Voyage, Pal." According to M. d'Orbigny, the sandstone extends westward along the coast as far as Port S. Antonio, and up the R. Negro far into the interior: northward I traced it to the southern side of the Rio Colorado, where it forms a low denuded plain.
"I shall accept then," said Madame d'Orbigny, with a sigh. The clerk knocked at the door. "Who is it?" demanded Ferrand. "Her ladyship, the Countess M'Gregor." "Let her wait a moment." "I leave you, then, my dear M. Ferrand," said Madame d'Orbigny; "you will write to my husband, since he desires it, and he will send you full powers tomorrow." "I will write." "Adieu, my worthy and good counselor."
My husband, as well as myself, madame, know and admire the well-known probity of the respectable and pious man you attack so blindly. This is to inform you, madame, that M. d'Orbigny, feeling, doubtless, for the unfortunate position in which you are placed, and of which it is not in his province to find out the real cause, finds it out of his power to assist you.
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