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whole pebbles, the granite rocks, All is
either definite or of the quartzites interbedded
with the old limits. Evidently no other rocks
were exposed. The pebbles tend to be angular
but the large blocks are somewhat rounded.
At first one thought ice was the agent of
transportation, but I will now concluded as
below
these conglomerates are local that torrential
rivers was the form of transportation.
In a local limestone conglomerate - the
first one seen truly - I formed rock for
more than two hours to get fossils. Reith for
the first papers and after all my work I
got 2 or 3 specimens of Ptychaspis or Glenflema
birkens or may just spins,
a large tail like Olenoides and Smithy,
the tail of Bathynotus, Dancy where have
seen Tridillatrogensis. On this conglomerate
follows the great third area of L. Oldslates.
It is in the lower 100 foot of the slate
that these fossiliferous conglomerates occur,