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Wednesday.
A. 19 ½ feet above river to a layer with
small specimens of Sabellaria +
Tetradinae.
B. 15 ½ feet of limestone layers and
clay layers in about equal pro-
portion well interbedded. The layers
about 3-4 inches thick. Here I found
Stephanomena alternata,
Crustellaria festivalis,
Pterinea demissa.
Orthis bifurcata, a form with scars
by any large line.
The uppermost layers contain
good Sabellaria + Tetradinae.
C. 11 ½ feet of massive limestone
well exposed.
D. These massive clayey beds
with a few fossils, resemble the
Madison beds in many ways
but differ in containing fossils.
At the very top is a bed with very
many Orthis bifurcata.
E. 11 feet of some kind of massive
beds. Orthis occidentalis found
within 6 inches of Black Shale.
The base of the Black shale rested
upon this massive bed and Prof.
Miller dug out shale resting upon
Orthis bifurcata, n and a manner
that an impression of this fossil
was preserved in the lower face of
the Black Shale.
Wednesday.
F. 14 ft from limestone, with not
many small crinoid heads + a
few spirifers. Declined to break
up into shaly fragments.
G. 22 feet of massive white
limestone, with gerdes, specially
near the top = St. Louis according
to Prof. Miller.
At Rosena, The lower Richmond
beds, 20 feet exposed on Sairo-
pill side, about a horizon 1
feet just below Madison!
&?
12. View of screw pump, or prin-
cipled Sand pump, 65 foot
driven well owned by store keeper
at Fairville.