The lands set apart for the relief of sufferers by the New Madrid earthquakes were known as "New Madrid grants." Auguste Chouteau established the first distillery in St. Louis by the aid of an extensive grant.--ED.
[106] The hero of this exploit was a Frenchman bearing the name of Baptiste Louis Roi.--ED.
[107] Miegia macrosperma of Persoon.--JAMES.
[108] The Nishnebottona (Nishnabotna) enters the Missouri in Atchison County, in the northwest corner of the state. See _post_, note 166.--ED.
[109] From Bay Charles Hill, four miles below Hannibal, Missouri, we received, through Dr. Sommerville, several organic remains. Among them are the following:--
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:--
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.
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.
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.