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on the western side of the river, rendered it probable that a part of them at 

 least are of Silurian age." In that article the professor does not mention 

 the finding of any fossils in the formation, and on what facts his statement 

 is based I do not know ; but his conclusion is entitled to great consideration, 

 for, although his study of this region Was of short duration, he fully appre- 

 ciated the great series of formations brought into view by the Uinta upheaval, 

 and in clear comprehensive language gives, in the article mentioned, a sum- 

 mary statement of the structural geology of the eastern Uintas. 



The following section was made by Mr. John F. Steward in the sum- 

 mer of 1871. It commences at Beehive Point at the head of Red Canon 

 and ends at the foot of the canon where the river debouches into Brown's 

 Park. Lower members of the group are seen farther down the river but are 

 not brought into the section. 



