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Ellis Bay, Thursday June 25.
At 7 A M started for the west shore.
As the most northerly locality directly opposite Mr. Meunier's house along the road and deep one begins to find an abundance of fossils. The horizon is C 3. We got all the fossils collected on June 11 again besides an abundance of Hindeella. Also some interesting gastropods but these are always rare.
From here to the outer Cape = Cape Henry The distance appears to be less than 2 miles.
We pass over all the beds, into C 12. And the Oolite beds are got a number of specimens which I get to be identified as P. parvus of a pentamerid. A little lower down in the same (C li) we got large ortho shell and crabs, and the slabs with byzons.
This series of beds is an alternation of limestone without mud shale parting separates by others that have more shale or an ore in a calcareous shale. In the weather those calcareous shales break down down into a mud but under water remain hard as they appear more as