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350 informed the Moravian missionaries at that place that a little farther north from Ungava Bay, a whole crew, consisting in all of about forty men, were enticed on shore and then killed by the Esquimaux."

The following is from Silliman's Journal of March, 1863:—

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"One of your Committee, appointed to examine the collection of minerals and fossils made by Mr. Charles F. Hall in his late Arctic Exploring Expedition, begs leave to report that he found the collection of fossils small in number of individual specimens, and limited in the range of its species, but possessing great interest to the student of arctic geology.

"The specimens are as follows:—

"This collection was made at the head of Frobisher Bay, lat. 63° 44′ N. and long. 68° 56′ W. from Greenwich, at a point which, Mr. Hall says, is 'a mountain of fossils,' similar to the limestone bluff at Cincinnati, with which he is familiar. This limestone rests upon mica schist, specimens of which he also brought from the same locality. Whether the limestone was conformable to the schist or not, Mr. Hall did not determine. It is much to be regretted that this interesting point was not examined by him, as it is doubtful whether this locality may ever be visited by any future explorer.

"The fossils, without doubt, are all Lower Silurian. The Maclurea magna would place the limestone containing it on the horizon of the Chazy limestone of New York. The Halysites catenulata has been found in Canada in the Trenton beds, but in New York not lower than the Niagara limestone. The Endoceras proteiforme belongs to the Trenton limestone. The Receptaculites is unlike the several species of the Galena limestone of the West, or the R. occidentalis of Canada. Mr. Salter speaks of one found