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place we saw this bed of sandstone resting the
Cayuga series.
After are set from the Chemungian high land we pass
down into the valley of the Owl rocks, and then all
theory to San Saba we are in the strawn. What
we see on the road side are thin and thick bedded
light greenish sandstones and by an scant the inter-
bedded with Hurist shale. These sandstones throughout
show current structures, small flms striated and
[illegible] structures, occassional [illegible] and rain
petrifications. Of plants there is not as much as one
expects but we saw plenty comminuted pieces
of ptiloma corrus and Calamites. This a fine grained
cheery marked light greenish sandstone, and pods are the
improper as being contorted by long worms delinual on
long serpentous. Drake reports that he design with
marine forms.
Left to San Saba at noon.
After lunch we went southeast to Barnett Spring
which is 4 miles N.E. of San Saba. Here in the stream
one sees the top of the Ellenstruyger very fine grained
dolomite that at the top also has a little of milky white.
calc. At the top saw sections of several species of gastropods.
The top of the Ellenstruyger is slightly irregular and