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Transcription
"[illegible] and a half breed indian
down the river 2 miles on the
Missisipi to wait a quarry
used by the government. The beds
about 8 feet above the water contain
Orthoites and the O. minor
and some fragments of other Trilobites
such as C. lownesi and C. cally-
minoides. Fossils too fine for
any purpose.
Sep 2
The layer accessible to me
around Salamonie
at the Centuri locality appears to
be equivalent to the Menominee
trilobite bed in which C. lownesi
occurs. Plates of Crinoides or Oys-
tides are very abundant here from
their seams in the Sandstone.
The other fossils common to the