Field Notebook: Alabama, Mississippi, Wisconsin
Page 31
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"Disney to Fail to Baden Springs. Oct 24, Saturday. Started away from Disney at 7.15: First visited a locality one mile south of Disney where a skeleton had been seen and taken away before by pieces by the farmer. Saw fragments of the skeleton. Only in another wash found the last fragments of a dinosaur, the balance had been washed away. Picked up a good canine tooth and a short single bone with a short rib or possibly part of a shank. Then started for Fail 5 miles south east. First visited a Mr Pinkerton north-east of Fail about a mile. The prairie was extremely limited. This man digs (?) in the claybank, a black highly sulphurous earth which he deepens into an open shed and then dips water through it for medicines to cure all ills. The band is about 2 feet thick as appear to be sulphurine lignite. Not far from it and above the layer is a marl (claystone). Of both these samples..