98 GEOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF ALABAMA CLAYS. 



LA MAR COUNTY. 



The strata of the Tuscaloosa formation cover the 

 entire area of Lamar below the mantle of red loam 

 and pebbles of the Lafayette. Among the strata are 

 numerous beds of clay of varying degrees of mirity. 

 Dr. Little's notes, which follow below, give many 

 details concerning them. 



Along the line of the Southern (Georgia Pacific) 

 Railroad, there are many exposures of the clays, as 

 at Millport, where the clay shows at a thickness of 

 four feet ; beyond this at about 23 miles from Fayette 

 Court House, the clay seems to be 10 feet thick, and 

 near this at F embank, J. D. Green has a pottery. 

 His clay is 18 feet (thick, analysis of this clay is to be 

 found in Dr. Ries' report, No. 27 S. 



Along the road from Fayette Court House to 

 Vernon, at 9 miles from the former place we have this 

 section. 



Section nine miles west of Fayette C. H., in Lamar Co. 



Blue clay feet 



Mottled clay 20 feet 



Sandy clay 4 feet 



Three miles further west on the same road, this clay 

 is some 20 feet in thickness. Within two miles of 

 Vernon, in A. W. Nicholas well, blue clay 8 feet thick 

 is penetrated below six feet of overlying sands. 



One mile east of Vernon, at a saw mill, there is clay, 

 white and 3 feet in thickness. 



On the old military road of Gen. Jackson at a dist- 

 ance of 20 miles from Columbus, Miss., and about T 

 or 8 miles northwest of Vernon, near Bedford P. O., 

 are the remains of a pottery once owned by Peter 

 Cribbs. At this place lives Captain Cribbs, a negro 

 man with his son, Major. Captain worked for 



