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are to be seen excepting an occasional sighting
of a turtle in a pasture, About one foot
beneath the top is a layer with many step-
[illegible] just above some indistinct run-eragging?
twacms infundibula? and crenid clummb.
I also thought to saw an [illegible]. The
only [illegible] comes in somewhat
dawn time
sharply but I don't if there is a real be-
tween them. There is no evidence of Black-
River here, certainly none like that at Patte-
senville, and its place may be taken by the
Lenville.
Leaving Amsterdam we went to Trits
Hill and then across the Mohawk to the
Beedmantown quarry less than a mile east
of Fort Hunter. Here near the top of the
Trits Hill part of the Beedmantown occurs
the light fossiliferous Trits Hill formation. The
bed occurs in pockets about from just beneath
the top of the quarry, or about 30 feet beneath
the top of the Beedmantown. Raymond says
this design is the same as the lower fossilferous