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"mounted. The models of the microfossils
are better than any I have seen elsewhere.
Staying at the Keelin Hotel.
Friday Sep. 1— Albany to Canajoharie.
Started out at seven in the morning for
Johnstown and then legged to Patersonville
to see the section described by Pinner and
Cumings in Fifteenth Annual Report N.Y.
State Geologist, 1895; 656-658. Patersonville
is between Johnstown and Amsterdam.
All the lown land from the Mohawk and
the canal up is of Bedfordtown and if white
about 183 feet can be seen. In the quarry on
the side of the hill about one-half mile south of
Patersonville may be seen resting in the
Bedfordtown the
Black River seven feet thick. In the basal two
feet fossils are scarce. About five feet above the
base Columnaria alveolata are very common.