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I purchased them for a shilling. These where found
near Chiallyn at.
In the afternoon we went west to Hock
Augustwell and crossed several hundred modules
and secured quite a lot of fossils. However but four
modules in 70 had fossils. Some fossil cores
are purchased of a native and Mr. White found
the best prices I secured a Scaphite. It seems
that the modules to the westward become some-
what more fossil bearing.
The beds from which these modules come
in Hock shale. It holds considerable water
and great masses slip down into the streams.
Cragation is prolific in their slopes. These
beds are lithologically quite different from
anything so far seen on the first promontory of
the Hock shale. The entire thickness can only
be 400 to 500 feet of which 300 feet appear to
be a Hock drift shale.
The idea conveyed in the field is that these
beds are younger than the Atane, The latter
are seen to gradually become less thick eastward,
Along the sea segment appears and a little east
of Hartefell the Hock beds rest upon basalt