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"[illegible]" Williams only grinds the [word illegible] further
and I arise return to hunt for higher Richmondian
forms. Casts of salt-hyphus also occur and
I believe impressions of scam drup.
Williams forms extend 3/4 mile where I
left off and get to 128 fath higher than the
ruffled zone (includes the 30 fath of left statement)
where the mud has continue
to rise here at the top in thin laminations he got
Gyrophylla neau vintra and small
trypora (see the 2 small slabs). All
of these 128 fath are red beds with some
green shale zones. It is evidently the last
of the Richmondian m a very shallow
sea flat almost on the land side.
Below the ruffled beds the common
forms are bygga and Hebrutella
sinuata. I see no P. capax, Strep-
telasma rusticum or the other only
characteristic species of this formation.
Later on I found a single form Stepteleism
rusticum. On my second visit saw but
one more f.