300 yds North of Durham's store at Messinac, on Whippsworth Branch Robinson creek, a short distance south I found James Samp. Chapman cove, facing Mary 47ft - chlor shale. 11 in french argill. base of chlor j shale (white to bluish very hard l.) 1ft 7in (thickening to 1ft 9in) of massive layer of Devonian limestone. various kinds of fossils. 1ft 6in finnish very ferruginous sandy shale. 7ft 6in thin bedded arg. Ordovician limest one (14ft > in thickness for this drain section, by rule) per- fectly corresponding to the layers beneath the Cephaena sand above the gray horizon The Devonian limestone extends up the branch some 500-700yds at the farm of Mike Wintersley. Fossils for which I named him, this locality were collected. Devonian argillaceous shaly and clay. ? 2 fossils? 100 yds NW of Peck, in road to Messinac, directly west of leasey Mrs Martha A Tucker. T.M. & Ppmrs. 3ft 3in chlor shale. 5 to 6 inches finnish ferruginous sandy stuff belonging to base of chlor shale. 14 ft Ordovician thin bedded argill, limest one as at Messinac. A quarter of a mile north of Peck directly opposite the house of Willt Overstreet, in bed of McClune branch of Robinson creek. chlor shale with 5 sandy limest lenses & fulls long and 2 inches thick at thickest point 4 in less silvery face of chlor shale, and a 3 inch layer of similar sandy limest one at the base, belonging to the chlor shale section. 6 in Devon limestone strong thin medium grained 9in Dev. L. strong blue, Retzius limbriata.