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eastern part of the cut, while it has entirely disappeared from the western 
end. It is likely that the layer is thicker than two feet, as other exposures 
seem to show. The area between cuts 2 and 3 is a large compound sink. 
On the north side of the track, the Mitchell is found about thirty feet below, 
with ten feet of hard, light-colored sandstone overlying. On the south 
side, fifteen feet below the track, three feet of the lower limestone out- 
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crop. Shale occurs below it, but most of the section is covered. In cut 3 
the following section was obtained : 
aed oi decree Rise 15) EN EI als oa erase Ghsieressfecuae aaeae (hy aie 
38—Sandstone, ripple-marked and cross-bedded............. Sills Datt. 
eT Ge DIME y SOs CLAN Voerceystencie o's ated Vole aie) oe Vele ict nelei a Salih ttt 
1—Limestone, lower, in ditch. 
In the eastern part of this cut the solution of the underlying Mitchell 
has again caused a synclinal folding of the beds. The shale No. 6 (of 
gen. sec.) first occurs in the top of the next cut 4 and continues in 5, 6, 7 
and 8. It is a sandstone or arenaceous shale at the bottom, becoming more 
