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New Jersey section, compiled from the reports of that State. 



At the time this and the Alabama sections were made out, a large area 

 in Upper Missouri country, now separated into Nebraska proper, and the 

 Territories since called Dakota and Montana, was known under the general 

 name Nebraska Territory. At. that time, the five members of the Upper 

 Missouri Cretaceous section had also not received geographical names, but 

 were merely designated by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, from below. Con- 

 sequently, the Upper Missouri equivalents in the column on the right of 

 these sections were merely numbered, and the whole series was there referred 

 to what was then known as the Nebraska section. 



By comparing this New Jersey section with that of the Upper Missouri 

 Cretaceous series given farther back, the parallelism of the different divisions, 

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