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(Zt no 3)
I collected some. The next step began to
introduce the very heavy bedded motled red
limestone found all along the shore. These
are Bascon where a shale series begins and
continues to near Pt aux Boisany, just
before reaching this pt, the Carbonic fossils crypto-
morpha is again present.
Climbed off the high rise to the south-west
(through continuous to Amadala la Rive)
of Anse au Bascon, and after a long search
was rewarded with some brachiopods. It seems
that the unweathered limestone when broken newly
reveals a good fossil but much weathered pieces
that could well under the summer dry yield
fossil specimens. My collection is very small.
The only way to make a large collection will
be to take a months time in searching the entire
mountain zone for the right kind of rock with
fossils. The beds seem to be in nests. There
are some cards in these nests but as a rule are
very scarce. On a fresh fracture the rock looks
much like Tennessee marl, I saw quite a lot of
more Pelespods are seen, Forbis Lot No 4.