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TC.76 22 ft massive as. 16½ft soft clay shale, 3ft limestone, 19½ (shaly as, in part) partly mixed 3½ ft l. mostly weathered away. Authority large sheet 0 2½ ft continuous l. to freeze. 16 ft clay shale a couple feet, 1898, 2½t massive as, w again as, large beds of the iron and red mulls. Sylvester Lagoon. 12ft sandy shale & thinbedded as, also some 15ft front, exposed [illegible] Bed B 26 ft limestone. The joint oblique, 6 ft partly exposed Sample 1893 1894 1895 1897 Wednesday July 23. Stephensport 190 ft Nat office, at 8 AM. 640 ft at 8.10 AM: put gravel along road N of Stephens port, (665?) 765 ft = top of BED C or Tri./limestone? N of Stephensonport: at 8.15 AM 750 ft = plenty of gravel at cross Whiteville's home, covered to 5 ft of loess, 735 ft = top of l. at cross level at rectin. Nr. 74. at 8.30 AM. 745 ft at 8.45 AM. at Yrs. 75. {752 limestone, a short distance N % of Locality 75. 765 ft when road continues southward and another road turns to northward Yrs. 77 - 770 ft. at 8.50 AM. The l. NEW Yrs. 75 cannot have been very thin, I think bedded as, above up, more moderately) above, and continue to Yrs. 78. Yrs. 78. Considerable thin bedded as, then l. (same as at 75 ?) 765 ft. shale are bare at 755 ft soft clay shale here at 748 ft. or the N side of the valley, the upper as. of the preceding rocks is reached again. at 770, at my the outcrop as apparently thin & l.