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"limestone that have a small and depauperate
fauna that reminds me of the Orvis fauna.
It is probably of Limerian age as the fossils
suggest this and there is nothing here that
in the least is ? Richmond character. They
may well be called the Leptaena rhom.
Medalis' b.s. along the road side 10 to
[Frogate says one 28 for thick]
11 Feb. Legrand &c found in the road at
the top of Blue Mountain. Whittaker writes
(Certain are errors)
that these beds are ?? far thick, followed
by some shales and then the massive
dolomite or magnesian limestone making
the topmost cresta of the mountains. The
made no attempt to see all of this Orvis
zone and none at all of the hidden shales.
On the roadside in the midst of the Orvis
dillutions picked up a ? sandy dolomitic slab
[come from]
replete with brachio and other fossils all
of which remind of the local Onedina fauna
collected by me at Hamilton, Ontario. This
piece may have come from the shales said
to lie above the Orvis. It could not here
come from the Orvis and probably not from