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Aug 13-97 Friday. Near Marslet.
At 7 A.M. Mr. Whit and I start for the fossil locality one and one half mile east of our camp or about
four miles east of Marslet. We gathered two coffee tins full of them, "Fonthill" or dog whelk
The beds here or at home are alternating
beds of sandstone, shale and coal. The locality is
immediately back of the beach and to west lies against
the gress. We have a picture of the locality taken
on the journey from home. The thickness of the beds
as seen here do not exceed forty feet. The plant
horizons are near the centre of these beds.
Above the lime beds unconformable are
loose greenish sand, with marine shells apparently of
living species such as Ogyra and Mytilus. These
beds were deposited in a slope medium of precipit
and some seem to extend up to a level of 150 feet
above them appears to be a bench.
While collecting at this place a whole boat put
in and the pastor of Greenall came ashore to greet us.
He is on tour visiting the people in his parish.
After a little conversation he asks one of the natives
to bring ashore a chest. It is a handsome green chest
but is loaded with a few bottles of wine and food, and
cheese. The Rev. Pastor then
invites us to a drink of Madeira and then
out of another bottle he serves two of natives to a