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Arkona, July 30-1912, Tuesday.
Spent the day collecting at Bartlett's Mills
now called Marshall's Mills or better Hungry
Hollow.
Here we have the continued section of
the railway cut and the brick yard seen
yesterday at Theoford.
The height of the hills at the bridge over
the Aux Sable river is according to barome-
ter 38 feet to the till Cranny. Further down
stream about 1/2 mile may be seen higher cliffs
of blue shale and limestone trending up to the
upper limestone or the Athyris crinitata beds.
These cliffs are about 50 feet high here.
The section at the bridge is as follows:-
= The Encinal
Limestone of A. y.
blocies tilis
Dark blue shales weathering to clay,
The lower S. micro metamus beds,
12 feet, Smistite here.
Foraminifera shale with Stylorhina, Athyris
crinita on L. limitata ?, 15 inches
Coal roof 3 feet, has beds and Plant remains
Limestone more or less bedded, 20 inches
shale clay shale with L. limitata 6 inches
dark blue shale - Lower Hamilton
22 feet to river.
Long spired S. micro metamus, Thecyrodictes
Ctenocarpus, Oeicolas, Smistites, Crinita.