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"Iceland moss compacta grow practically attached to the Lamentian. One specimen the layer are I can save, also black, stark alg. It does the structure finely.
These limestones lie undulating upon the irregular Lamentian. The inequalities may amount to 10 or 20 feet and on those humps the Trenton is depicted in undulations. In places the limestone lies directly upon the granite, with a very little shale interposed; and others in the deeps holes lay around pieces of the granite around which lay "Parsons forsteri", Iceland moss compacta and other forms. The Iceland moss were particularly common just on a one the granite. In one of those holes was seen growing a mass about 8 or 9 acres of Clenmerader. Enginurus Calymore and Trinucleus, along with Chiro- crinus gracilis (cystid). Which said the horizon was older Trenton - Parsons Trenton - are directly comparable with the Cudsville