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"important horizon. It has include a number
of layers since they closely adjoin.
Loc. 6. This is a series of often
limestone layers, not nodular. Shell Corium
is the prominent fossils. In this zone a few
shark's teeth were found two Prof Lawson
and only Prof Charlton. It may be near the
zone that the latter also found a outskirt of
Plesiosaurus? See also the note than you
on the gentleman.
Ninety fathoms above Loc. 6 is a thin
zone probably in the reef with a great
abundance of Diceroceras and scattering
leaves. Above of the latter a few by Prof.
Knyphs collected them for Mr Charlton.
This is the most important find of the day
and was made by Prof Brown of Morgan-
Town, M.D., Va.
Loc. 8 is quite a distance south of the
plant horizon and has numerous fragments of