well as the succession of strata in the intermediate section where 

 the marl bed is exposed. Some recent shells were also collected 

 along the beach. No new exposures were sought out, for time was 

 limited, and, too, such was not necessary for the investigation to be 

 carried on. In most localities the observations of others were con- 

 firmed as to thickness and position of fossiliferous beds and other 

 beds above and below. But at Young Island, the famous Simmons 

 Bluff of geologic literature, the bluff was found somewhat 

 changed from what it was when Tuomey, Holmes, Burns and others 

 made collections there. The "storm of 1893" wrought some changes 

 here as elsewhere along the coast, removing an area of about ten 

 acres just along the bluff, as Mr. Geraty, the postmaster and one of 

 the largest truck farmers there, a man of good memory, informed 

 me. This, however, was far from being a disadvantage, as it gave 

 a greater area of exposure and consequently greater facility for col- 

 lecting. As this was the writer's first experience in collecting fossils, 

 with the exception of collecting under different conditions from the 

 Silurian beds about Nashville, Tenn., one can well imagine the 

 delight with which the broad exposure of fossil shells was beheld, 

 and with what eagerness shovel and sieve were brought into play. 

 The exposure extends outward from the foot of the bluff a distance 

 of thirty or forty yards at low tide. The length of the exposed bed 

 along the margin of Wadmalaw Sound is a half-mile or more. Also 

 at White Point Creek (Price's Creek) such great changes had taken 

 place that the Pleistocene fossil bed located by Tuomey as on the 

 right bank of the creek, a half-mile from the point where the old 

 Kingston country road crosses the creek and plainly within view of 

 the ocean beach, could not be found at all, though four or five hours, 

 with the help of Mr. Sessions and his two boys of that neighborhood, 

 were spent in the effort to locate it. Exposures were looked for 

 everywhere within proper limits, and numerous small holes three or 

 four feet deep were made over an area a half-mile long and several 

 rods wide, extending from a quarter of a mile of the old Kingston 

 road almost to the beach, but the shells sought for were not found. 

 The supposition is that the bed had been so deeply covered with sand 

 by the storm of 1893, or some other, that the holes made did not 

 reach down to it, or else that the bed itself had been swept away and 

 destroyed. Storm-driven waves may easily accomplish this in case 

 of a bed of limited area as this, from Tuomey's description, seems to 

 have been. In the proper place in this paper will be given descrip- 

 tions of the various localities from which Pleistocene shells have been 

 collected. 



