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deposits. The country rises considerably towards
the mountain and the B & Q goes through the
lowest part of it.
In the cut through Pratt Mountain we
started one word in the Becraft limestone
where collected considerable loose fossils. We
lot with the greatest abundance of Rhizidomella
assimilis is from about ten feet of the top of the
limestone, while the smaller lot is from a
game about five down. The Becraft limestone
is continued upwards by a shale series in
which few fossils can now be had due to
These shales there are clearing towards the top.
the mountain matting. Chacops and a small
cep carol are the only ones readily seen, but
on breaking some of the limy pieces from #
new the top of the series collected Styliolin
ostracods, an Orthis and Ondelia. Have taken
these fossils. The limestone has at least one gne (conglut.)
The Marcellus Haell shale rests directly
and sharply [distinct heart]
on these Helderbergian strata. The two seem
to be conformable but there where absent are
of the Onitau and Ondopa. (the calcareous gne)
Above comes in the Hamilton, near the
base of which Reeds collected a slab with
Spirifer zigzag, Orthothets, and Chanites (see