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8. Dark blue clay same as No. 6 6 feet. 



9. Brown coal 3 to 4 " 



10. Dark grayish blue sand 15 " 



o 11. Thiii stratum of calcareous sandstone ... I foot. 



"3 12. Dark gray sand similar to No. 10 2 feet. 



^ 13. Brown coal, poor quality 2 to 6 inches. 



14. Dark gray sand similar to No. 10 8 feet. 



15. Gray calcareous sandstone 1 foot. 



16. Dark bluish gray sand with iron pyrites . . 8 feet. 



17. Boulders of clay ironstone and gray calcareous 



sandstones with irony nodules and thin seams 

 of ferruginous sandstones with dicotyledo- 

 nous leaves 2 feet. 



18. Gray sandstone I2 " 



19. Laminated bluish gray sand to water .... 2 '' 



A little over a mile farther up the river we find section II at Bee 

 shoals showing the following beds belonging to the lignitic. Nos. 1, 

 2 and 3 of the section are omitted as they belong to the more recent 

 and river alluvium : 



II. Section at Bee Shoals : — 



4. Black or dark blue clay 5 feet. 



5. Broken seams of brown coal >} to 3 " 



6. Black clay same as No. 4 5 " 



7. Dark bluish-gray sandstone weathering on out- 



side to a brown containing broken plant 



remains 1 ? to 6 feet. 



8. Clay similar to Nos. 4 and 6 4 " 



9. Thin stratum of gray calcareous sandstone . 4 to 6 inches. 



10. Gray sand laminated and containing thin 



layers of dark clay 10 feet. 



11. Rounded waterworn boulders with calcite 



streaks '1 foot. 



12. Gray sand with pyrites to 5 feet. 



From this point to the base of the lignitic beds near the mouth of 



Pond Creek the' beds comprise a series of gray sands interstratified 

 with gray sandstones. These sands and sandstones cannot be less 

 than 300 feet in thickness. A section at Gibson's gin near Calvert 

 shows them to be at least 265 feet. The following is the section : 



