1881.] 



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Note. — Beds 5 and 6 do not properly belong to the section, but "repre- 

 sent beds seen on another part of the stream below the preceding ' ' (Tuo- 

 mey, loc. cit,, p. 146). 



Beds corresponding to J^o. " 2 " of the above section are like- 

 wise exposed on Cave and Knight's branches, tributaries of 

 Bashia Creek, and have been shown b^' Dr. Eugene A. Smith to 

 underly the base of the " Buhrstone " proper by nearly (if not 

 more than) 200 feet (Heilprin, " Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences of 

 Philadelphia," 1881, p. 369). The relations of these various beds 

 will be best understood by a reference to the sections exposed on 

 the Tombigbee River. 



Sections on the Tombigbee Biver. — At Wood's Bluflf, near the 

 mouth of Bashia Creek, we have the following exposure : ^ 



^ I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Eugene A. Smith, State Geologist 

 of Alabama, for the use of this heretofore unpublished section. 



