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August 12. Monday Sandusky.
Left Cleveland at 7 am. In Sandusky 60 miles east of Cleveland. Then with car to lake port to take the steamer across thery to the Peninsula, Landed at Ohlemacher one of the large quarries of the Marble shale here is attacked.
These quarries show about 25 to 30 feet ex-panse. The material is largely quarried for lime making are rip-saw material. In the upper layers fossils are most abundant and. You see in the lower layers the most common fossil is Styphnodictus em-caura. Other fossils are A. demissa, S. (small pygmae) Stypia aspera, Chonetes (?) scitula, Stictospora. Of corals there are many Cyathiphyllum carobitum, Farneis cunicus, Eophrentis, Cystiphyllum etc. Two species of Hymatosporea. Concardium and Leprecanus (one about 10 inches in diameter) were seen in Mr. Clemens collection, an old farmer living near Ohlemacher towards Lake Erie.
From a quarry man (crane sparta) I purchased 2 Macerpectalichthus sullivanti for $2.50. Will ship by express. William Bird, Lakeside Ohio.
From what I saw I am certain that all these beds are of Onondaga age. There is nothing to indicate