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Lewistown May 5 - 1901
Sunday.
Spent the morning along the
first three miles of the railroad
towards Cumberland. The road follows
pretty nearly on the strike of the
lewisstone limestone. In the lower
portion of this thin, laminated
Magnesian limestone the only fossils
noticed are Ostracods apparently
the same zone as in Mullens
quarry at Cumberland, Md. Towards
the top of the ridge and apparently
near the top of the Lewistown limestonethe rocks is more crystalline
and has much crinoidal material
Favosites and A. reticularis. I dont
think this is very high up in the
Lower Pennamurus zone. There may be
from 20 to 40 feet over of Lewistown.
In the afternoon crawled up
to the top of the ridge to "Prospect
rock." In a little quarry near the
base of the ridge and east of the
houses of the village A. reticularis