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them in boxes, which were stored away in the Asylum. He also 

 filed with the County Clerk a section and record of the w^ork. 



Through the kindness of Dr. Hazard, Superintendent of the 

 Asylum, I obtained a complete suit of these specimens, and from 

 an examination of them I have made out the following Section, 

 which ditVers but little from that of Mr. Atkinson : 



SECTION OF BORING. 



DESCRIPTION OF MATERIAL PASSED THROUGH. 



I. I 40 



r ^ 4 



II J ■^ ^ 



) 4 8 



I 5 4 



III. 6 5 



r 7 2 



I 8 3 



I 9 9 



IV. <; 10 6 



I II 21 



I i^ 4 



I 13 I 



1 14 8 



V. 15 139 



VI. 16 3 



f 17 176 



r 



VII. <( 



Clay 



Tumbled masses of Limestone 



Red Clay 



Limestone 



Red Clay 



Coal 



Fire-clay 



Light-colored Limestone. Bottom of well dug 

 before commencement of boring 



Biue and drab Clay, slightly calcareous 



Cherty Li mestone 



Dark and bluish-gray Shales, slightly calcareous 



Cherty Limestone 



Coal 



Light-blue Clay 



Hard cherty Limestone, blue, drab, and gray; 

 some of it cherty, the upper part fine-grained, 

 the lower coarse, to 



Blue Shales 



Drab and gray Limestone, generally hard and 

 cherty, but a portion of it is free from chert. — It 



is drab in color to . • • • 



'• then dark ash-colored at 



" " " drab " to 



" " grayish and light drab to .... 



" " cherty at 



and is of a dark color to 



Dark-drab Limestone 



The recorded Section reports white Limestone 

 alternating with Shales from 43S to 



Hard blue cherty Limestone 



Very hard Chert at 



Coarse bluish-gray Limestone from 628 to 



Buft' and drab cherty Limestone at 



Sandstone, very fine-grained, to 



Chert and Limestone at 



Total 



Depth 



bHovj 



surface. 



44 ft 



49 



57 



61 



66 



68 



71 



So 



86 

 107 

 III 

 112 



I2Q 



259 

 262 



Mostly light-gray or drab Limestone to 



Red Limestone from 790 to ■- 



Light-drab and gray Limestone with some Chert 

 from Soo to 



2S9 

 300 

 362 

 420 

 420 

 43S 

 500 



536 

 62S 

 682 

 703 

 703 

 709 

 721 

 732 

 790 

 800 



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