Martinsburg, Tuesday July 16 - 1907 Hancock, St Va. and Md. At 11.18 left for Hancock. Going along the B & O. P.R. over the first strike encountered one Hamilton and then Marcellus. The dip is 1m (probably 350) to the east. Then follows the upper Oriskany or rathering down to a loose sand. The lower part of this exposure is a silicious shale with chert bands, actuating a yellowish-red, followed by a thick series of thin lidded limestones with shale partings. On the faces of the bedding planes saw many fossils among them, those that I can decipher from the lower part of the Coggmans or Meristella griseauntia. Orthotheca and one bel form, Tentaculite cyphacarthus, Bryozoa etc. These beds are followed by other of a nodular nature also with shale partings. None of these beds are in the upper Coggmans as one of the corals or Stromatopora are here but the fossils seem to indicate that the lifter beds beneath the Oriskany begin in the middle Coggmans. About half way down these beds found a good crinoid. The total thickness of these limestones shown beside the railroad track does not exceed 75 ft. (See account of July 17) The base of the Marcellus here more than