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Spring balls
Wednesday Aug. 12-91.
Visited a small quarry in
the Devonian one mile east of the
town and near the rail-way.
Fossils fairly numerous and of
about two species. Then visited
a quarry about one mile west of
town also in the Devonian. On
the side of the yard near the entrance
to this quarry there is a small exposure
of Devonian which appear to be the
lowest beds of this formation. From
that level to the top of the quarry one
finds above the thickness of the
Devonian in this section must be not
less than 20 feet in thickness. Fossils
in this quarry not numerous. On our
return to the town and near the
station on the Princeton R.R. at the
base of the trestle there is an exposure
of the Cincinnati group. A little