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Trosly-Breuil, and from the latter walk one and a-half miles south- 

 east to 



CuiSE La Motte. — (Forty-nine miles north-east of Paris.) 

 There is a comfortable inn in the village. The celebrated and 

 richly fossiliferous typical section* of the Sables de Cuise lies to 

 the west, just outside the village. 



At several points in the woods of Cuise, fossiliferous exposures 

 of the Sables de Cuise and Lower Calcaire Grossier may be 

 found. 



Lrom Cuise, excursions may be made towards the south to 

 Pierrefonds and Morienval, through some charmingly beautiful 

 country; the Gorge du Han is especially fine with the distant view 

 of Pierrefonds and its fine Chateau. 



Pierrefonds. — (Three miles south of Cuise.) Close to this 

 town, on the road from Cuise at La Pisselotte, are two sections in 

 fossiliferous Sables de Cuise and Lower Calcaire Grossier ; and 

 south of Pierrefonds (Gorge de Pierrefonds) is another section in 

 Sables de Cuise with teies-de-chat. Further south on the same 

 road, at the farm of Bas Palesne is a section in Middle Calcaire 

 Grossier, and at Haut Palesne a section in Sables de Cuise 

 showing the passage into Lower Calcaire Grossier. 



Morienval is four and a-half miles south of Pierrefonds, 

 and at several points are fossiliferous sections in Sables de Cuise 

 and Calcaire Grossier — particularly at Fossemont, close to 

 Morienval. 



Returning to Cuise and leaving from Trosly-Breuil, a halt may 

 be made at 



Soissons. — Close to this city, at St. Christophe, and at 

 another section half-a-mile south of the latter, are exposures of the 

 Lignites with Ostrea bellovacensis, Corbicula cuueiformis, and other 

 characteristic fossils. 



The sandstone of Belleu, a short distance south of Soissons, 

 has furnished a fine flora from the upper part of the Lignites, but 

 the ([uarries are now exhausted. 



At Mercin, two miles west of Soissons, the Sands of the 

 Soissonnais are fossiliferous and contain fine Velates Schmideli,&ic. 



The following centres from which the Eocene beds may be 

 examined are suggestions only, as, with some exceptions, we have 

 not personally visited the sections ; but they are all important and 

 characteristic localities, and many are referred to in the strati- 

 graphical descriptions in the preceding pages. 



.See description, p. 11. 



