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Grand River Aug 22 Tuesday.
Collected all morning on the farm above the
road of the Grand River postmaster. The rocks are
very much decomposed here and the fossils occur
as casts. Catmia in great quantity, deemed a
gay slot and a bag of entire specimens. Physis-
domella, Meristella the other common fossils.
This horizon is about that of the Lehuquet beds.
Packed my fossils this afternoon. Two
handls and one box of the Baske (Postage road)
One handl has some fresh and hard ones Rainy ones
material material. The other various like in the Catmia slot, The
box has Baske's Rainy sandstone fossils.
After thralling over the various fossils collected
at Dalhousie, Pierce at Baske conclude
that Baske beds 1 and 2 are about of the age
of the New York Creemans. The Dalhousie
beds are probably the equivalent of the Baske
beds nos 3, 4 and 5. The Dalhousie hypidula
beds are to be compared with the N.J. Beeroft
or that the beds under Mr. Sturwats farm are of
about Kingston but for totally different faunal
facies, Pierce rock is undoubtedly the equivalent