327 
The following is a detailed description of the beds in that 
quarry :— 
HARDWICKE QUARRY 
Beginning with the first exposed bed on the South and 
proceeding Northwards we have 
Thickness | 
ft. in. 
No. 
1 
26 
27 
28 
Yellow limestone bed 
Bluish do. with large (Pr: oducti) 
Solid do. 
Ditto, becoming fissile (Pr gst) 
Solid bed 
Shaly parting covered with flaked Pr oducti and eee ia 
Blue solid limestone (Productt) 
Series of broken up beds, yellowish and ie with soft palin 
sand near top ‘ : 
Ditto, do. yellowish mal ee 
Solid limestone with Producti 
Four or five beds ‘s 
Three compact beds, joints aioe: red, = eee al uni- 
valves, (Euomphali) on surface 
Compact blue limestone 
Ditto do. “On a6 ey So: in SS: 
Ditto do. casts of univalve, (query Euomphalus ?) 
Ditto, with strings of calcite and Producti 
“ Firestone,” dense siliceous rock, very hard to work, divided into 
two beds by a band of Coral (Lithostrotion irregulare) 4 to 6 in. 
Top bed weathering red on surface, sandy and friable 
Ditto, siliceous limestone, joints weathering sandy, with casts of 
Brachiopods (Spirifera octoplicata, Athyris globularis) ... 
Limestone, with Corals (Lithostrotion) and Brachiopods 
Thin bed, purplish in fracture, Corals (Lithostrotion) 
Solid do., faces of joints red ... 
Yellowish beds 
Blue do., fissured 
Clay parting 
Blue bed broken up 
Ditto 
Ditto 3 a fe 
Brown do., on eS. with pis er with She ian section 
was measured (October, 1887,) since then worked farther back 
x2 
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