Field Notebook: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Ontario 1916, 1917, 1920
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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