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July 31. Dechants arts.
into the sea, and almost continues on its course and in another arm of this hended sandy li, which swings around once into the land dipping S. 45- W. This bed is characterized by worm holes, which are vertical and always cut out in pairs 1/2 to 3/4 inch apart. These holes range from 1/8 to 3/8 inch in diameter and often have a filling of tiny limestone grains.
Proceeding onward one can diagonally over a thickness of li. clay and then strike another long bed a "piddle" of purrish-Haell shale and sandy li, with layers of Haec chalk. The li. banks are more or less irregular, ranging from 1 to 6 inches thick and are thinny. In this shale bed are 3 banks of intrastratified clay, one above another, ranging from 8 to 20 inches thick and separated by from 4 to 20 inches of the hended shale and li. In this infraclay there are some piddles of Haec chalk and others up to 8 inches across are made up of Dechmontown li. Many of the piddles show crushing to fit the other after deposition.
Beyond this gone comes very heavy li. clay, with many bands of li. 6 feet across (and one 12 feet across was seen), between which are many masses of this heddled shaly material all marked and smaled of many the bears boulders. This interjops along shore for a distance of about 100 yards and then comes the great "Phyllagrophytus piddle" which is about 450 feet long by 20 feet thick, and clips at S. 30 E., its east end lost in the sea and its west end striking into the land. It is composed of interbedded layers of black chalk, dark gray li. and shale. Phyllagrophytus are very abundant.
After crossing another arm of li. clay, one comes to another great mass of beds about like the Phyllagrophytus bed but this mass is about 100 feet