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Upper Oriskany horizon - is a white crystalline
beautifull limestone of not less than 20 feet
thicknes. This zone has very little chert but most
of the fossils written out somewhat as siliceous pean-
domaths. In the upper most beds large conusely
pliedid spirifer crenensis and Coelospirin encara,
are the common fossils. Also P. musculorum, my
large Eatmia and less commonly Furostella emargin
Towards the bottom of these horghets occur the
A. barandei and Sp. murchisoni of which I collects
a quantity in bars swords. Below these beds chert
becomes abundant for about ten feet and here are
common Chonites crenensis, Lestotophin etc.
Farther down come in the softer thin bedded yellowish
limestones without flint but in places written into a
whitish mass looking like decomposed flints.
After getting on the Cape Romain road and
looking back to the