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Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
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Transcription
"The leaves have been drifted to this place
since are are in payments. The one perfect
leaves are on the surface sandstone.
The leaves in the main horizon are for
a buff thin lagoon shale and are completly
mattered together, but with their
imperfect condition and their abundance many,
I must value in the way of perfection can
be seemed.
The lepton bed is the lower four feet in a
declining black light material becoming more
impure above. The following shale horizon
is composed of number strands of bright
yellow with brownish streaks passing above
into the buff leaf horizon. This is followed
by seam of whitish once or two coarse
sandstone sometimes with small pellets for
2 to 6 feet thick. The folios and also
brownish bituminous layers about six
thick with the outer s, capped by more
noble course sandstone yellowish in color
and then streaked by iron stains."