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while the upper layers of rock strongly resemble the features of an 

 Indian, with a juniper or red cedar tree for a scalp lock. 



Pelton's woods is a wood tract a quarter of a mile south of the 

 fair grounds, in Osage. They are never disturbed save as the 

 writer and her friends search for birds and plants. The shield ferns 



Fig. 95.— Indian Head Bluff, Osage, showing- unconformity of the strata. 



here grow to enormous size, and here also is a large colony of the 

 sensitive fern, while occasionally in the heart of these woods we 

 have found the showy orchis. 



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