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mixed with white sand, and of sand, which is more or less replaced over 
large areas by flat, irregular masses of fine or coarse fossil-bearing 
conglomerate of widely differing consistency, ranging in color from 
gray to dark brown or blackish. These masses, which in spots reach 
20 inches and even more in thickness, rest upon the irregular surface 
of a more clayey deposit, allied to the greenish basal layer of the 
Osprey skull locality and less permeable by water than the sand and 
soil above it. In this deposit were seen small waterworn pebbles, 
but no larger rocks or consolidations. As to the conglomerate, that 
found at the surface, which forms in places a detachable layer look- 
ing not unlike a lava flow, is finer grained, more grayish in color, and 
Fic. 10.—Shore line at South Osprey. 
contains but few fossils. In places it is as hard as flint, while in 
others, sometimes in close proximity, it lacks firmness and crumbles 
to pieces readily, hardening somewhat, however, on exposure in dry 
places. Below this layer, which is very variable in thickness, and 
sometimes in places where it is absent, is found the coarser conglom- 
erate, of a darker color, in places visibly ferruginous, also differing in 
consistency from spot to spot and containing fossil sharks’ teeth and 
many waterworn fossils of cetaceans. These fossils, jasper-like in 
appearance and hardness and plainly not contemporaneous with the 
rock that holds them, are being slowly washed out by the waves to he 
along the beach. The human skeleton was found in a grayish-black 
portion of the upper, finer conglomerate. 
