John Strong Newberry

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• “After the age the whole region between the Mississippi and the Atlantic was raised above the , where it has remained with little variation of altitude to the present time. Of this belt of elevated country, which reached from the and the to the , the most easterly portion was much the older. This was formed by the and the , with one or more parallel ridges on the east, which have since been depressed. The proper were added toward the close of the Carboniferous age.”
• “It is known to all s that in the a considerable number of fish remains are reported to have been found in the middle and upper portion of the system. It is true that the ichthyic character of the peculiar organisms here referred to, those named and by Huxley and , have been doubted by many and denied by some, but the authors mentioned are positive in their statements, and there are none among whose dicta deserve more respect than theirs.”

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