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Monday July 25. Florida Core.
Arrived here on the Home at 1 P.M.
At 2 started north and examined the shore for
about two miles to Savage Cove. In this distance saw
about so far or less of strata. The dip while any drift
is distinctly towards the Strait
What we saw are then headed to Lear's headed my
fine paired, dense, emphyseally splitting Lyst. Here
did limits that rather to a gill or a Gelatinous grey.
The strata are in low domes and are much jointed.
Here and then we sees a sun-cracked bed and
then goes of intraformational conglomerates.
Fossils are exceedingly scarce excepting a small
species of Lingula identified as L. acuminata. It
may be this species but if or are smaller than the
New York specimens. These are common and generally
in fragments. No other fossils were seen, except an individual.
The land is here very low, gently northwest rising to
75 feet in the interior. Apparently all is once or ten terraced
and the low peninsula appears to have been made by the sea.
We crossed an elevation of 30 feet and here we saw the same
head wall that may be seen on the present beach.
What we saw today is probably near the tip of Arizona
and
June 4. [See Scott of Canada, 1863] p. 289).
Evidently these deposits are those of a very shallow sea. Low
in the old limits, sun-cracked and intraformational conglomerates.