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82 Hotel Sarvel - 1000 James Sant & Co. Continued. as far as by lined in strata (E)1125 became highest beyond W. highest level of land a road. 1175 top of highest party road 1225 Dry Branch bridge road. 1188 (198) Dry Branch, Clinton in creek, close 300 ft. west of bridge? - 1175 (185) 1. Dry Branch, Clinton, 11 inches. Placed with salt marl from stratal effects, varying to stony tenacious loam to clay. brown bit art. The free saltern form coal at all (min. from effect). Orthus elegantula, Calymphylla hanksii, Lyellia. Favrites Magaravisi; Plychrophyllum spermen, Halzites catenulatus, Dry Branch cont. 83 Sarvel = 10 ft 6 in. {Sarvel with chert layers every 6-10 inches - 5 ft thick. First marked chert layer. is 5 ft 6 in above L base. Base of quarried Sarvel. - 5 ft 6 in. above Cl. top. Sarvel Niagara to = 5 ft 6 in. Minty thin courses. There is no chert at all. The lowest layers lie directly on the Clinton, are quite hard, and a little like what I have been accustomed to call white ore. Clinton - 11 inches. { See previous page. Blue clay 20 ft 20 in. (Limestone. Blue, sometimes varying towards firm cemented shale alter- nate. + Othus accidentalis. These fossils are found in saline barren limestones resembling the Clinton but another place) 4 in. Soft clay and thin limestone belt. Blue Limestone full of fossils. Clay layers intercalated . 20 ft. Blue shaly clay -