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Saturday June 1-1901
Harristown, Pa.
Roped out here to see the
limestones along the Susquehanna
from Bridgport south.
Just a little beyond the Bridge-
port bridge is a thick series of dark
much crumpled shales. Looked for
fossils but saw none. A little farther
in the new road cut and then along
the railroad to Daltonpore is a
series of heavy bedded limestones dipping
from 30 to 35 degrees south. These
limestones weathered are from buff to
white but in fresh outcrop are dark
blue to black. In the rail road
cut saw most evidences of fossils
but could make out nothing of them.
I then hunted along the main line
south for 1/4 mile when I had the
first clear fossils and there are not
determinable. They are sections of
large scotyfordos. Have one specimen
and if but others sketches. Both