river and is about 3 feet high. Lyon thinks this peculiarity due to frost and heat but on reflection I conclude that the weathering has brought out the original bedding. Further to this there shelly pieces of limestone have many fossils, other thirdments are bygone, and these lie on the plane of the rock. If this condition were due to weathering one should find more shells cut through by the supposed false bedding. Fractures Over the Block a Middle Carol had one notices many fractures quite regular in their trend. These are small in width from 1/8 to 1/2 inch in width and now filled with celestite. They are about 21 feet apart to 24 feet and trend at 35° S.E. Lyon tells me he has traced them completely across the river to the Kentucky