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 XXXII. 



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XXXIV. 

 XXXV. 



DESCRIPTION OF MATERIAL PASSED THROUGH. 



5 Argillaceous Limestone to 



43 Limestone with some Chert; upper part light- 

 gray, the lower of a still lighter color 



67 Mostly a light-gray or blue Clay 



16 Dark Clay , 



56 Blue Clay alternating with thin Limestone layers 



194 Blue and drab Limestone, with probably some 



Magnesian l.iyers at 1139 ft., to 



Cream-colored Magnesian Limestone at 



Light-blue cherty Limestone, with salt water at 



extending to 



27 Light-colored Limestone from 1 225 to 



52 Dark Limestone to 



49 Light-drab cherty Limestone to 



17 Yellowish-gray Limestone to 



78 Dark Limestone from 1402 to 



4 Light-colored Limestone 



133 Mostly pure white Sandstone, the upper portion 

 soft and consisting of pure, clear and rounded 

 grains, and contains sulphurous water. The 

 lower portion is somewhat brown. Extends 

 from 1452 ft. to 



61 Buff-brown and drab-chcrty Limestone to .... 



67 Buff and brown Magnesian Limestone, some of 



it cherty, to 



389 Buff and drab cherty Magnesian Limestone, to 



82 Hard and mostly pure Sandstone, with some 

 Limestone beds with Chert, buff and brown or 



reddish-gray, to 



487 Limestone and Chert — colors buff, drab, and 

 gray. The Chert beds include probably one- 

 half the entire series from 21S4 to 



172 No Chert from 2671 to 2735. Sand often abun 

 dant to 



37 Mostly Sandstone with a little Lime in the upper 

 part to 



142 Limestone, mostly free from Chert and Sand, to 



98 Sandstone, upper portion dirty, middle blue, and 

 the lower part is reddish-gray with a blue tinge 



13 Dark Magnesian Slate to 



371 Yellowish-dr.ib or gray Magnesian Limestone, 

 hard, and contains biit little Sand. The lower 

 66 ft. is thin-bedded dirty- reddish -gray, with 

 some sandy beds, to 



41 Mostly hard thin-bedded Sandstone, dark olive- 

 gray in color — under the magnifying-glass it 

 seems to be formed of white and black grains — 



to 



563 I Sand and Limestone to 



57 5^28 Brown Sandstone near upper part, the lower 



mostly Granite — the lower 40 ft. is a hard red 



rock, and is certainly powdered Granite, for 



some of the grains are red Quartz or Feld 



spar — to 



Totat 



Detth 



belovi 



surface^ 



840 



S83 



966 

 1022 



1216 

 t2l6 

 1220 

 1225 

 1252 

 1304 

 1353 

 1370 

 I44& 

 1452 



1585 

 164^ 



>7i? 

 2102 



2184 



2671 



2843 



2880 

 3022 



3120 

 3133 



3.';o4 



3545 

 355c 



3843 -S 



