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■of similar colored fire clay from a pit near the edge of the village. 

 The conglomerate stratum, No. 3, of the " Fire Clay " quarry is 

 also present at the base of the sandstone in the Hoover sand- 

 stone quarry. Near Captain Hoover's house, below the sand- 

 stone and fire clay, the Wabaunsee limestone is shown ; but the 

 contact between the Wabaunsee and Dakota formations is cov- 

 ered by soil. 



Charles S. Prosser. 

 Union College, 



Schenectady, N. Y., October 1896. 



