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and we got by, hurts over without guns
and powder of with lammers and effect.
my boys.
We saw no exposures until we got about
2 miles east of Jupiter River where a hill
of some size came falling over the roof.
Here is a small exposure of light green
or gray limestone in thin beds, 1-3 inches.
These are followed for another half mile
when all is covered again by the down
slope of the glacial blue clay. In this
clay occur a number of feebly pods or
necks fossils that one can readily mistake
them for recent shells when it not for the
fact that the species are all different from
those of the present beach.
(Going D7)
Going D9 has not many fossils
but those collected are good and very inter-
esting. The fossil I got was a fine and
large shell that I mistake for [illegible]
nematites. As I collected once it soon