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along the line of the railroad, the clay shows in a cut 

 one mile from 'the depot. On the Columbus road, four 

 miles from Fayette, a six foot bed of clay is recorded, 

 and five miles further west, at Hezekiah Wiggins' a 

 bed of blue clay, four feet thick. Dr. Ries has tested 

 and analyzed this clay under No. 32, S. 



Half a mile further west at Henry Wiggin's, there 

 is a bored well, eighty feet deep, which, below the 

 depth of fifteen feet, seems to be mostly in clay. One 

 fourth of a mile beyond this, near Waldrop's, a bed of 

 blue clay, 10 fet t'hick, shows at the bottom of a hill, 

 and fifteen feet higher up another bed appears. 



Along the road to Tuscaloosa at seven miles from 

 Fayette, and also a mile further on, clay, t'hree feet in 

 thickness, is exposed. Again in section 13, township 

 17, range 12, about a quarter of a mile from Shirley's 

 Mill, several beds of clay are shown along a hill side. 

 One of (these beds, a brown clay, about three feet in 

 thickness, is full of finely preserved leaf impressions, 

 and below it a fine sandy clay of three feet thickness. 

 This is near the 11 mile post from Fayette. 



Dr. Ries has analyzed two samples of the clay from 

 this place under the numbers 68, S., and 110, and the 

 reader is referred to these analyses and the remarks 

 of Dr. Ries below. 



Two miles southwest of Shirley's Mill on Davis' 

 Creek. J. W. Black reports four feet of blue clay in 

 section 25, township 17, range 12 west. 



Near Doty's place, one mile east of Concord Church 

 and about thirteen miles from Fayette, there is the 

 following section exposed in a gully: 



Section near Doty's, Fayette Co. 



Red loam and sands of the Lafayette 4 feet 



Ferruginous sandstone crust 2 inches 



White clay (No. 7, Dr. Ries) 6 feet 



Yellow sand 5 feet 



Variegated clay (No. 71, Dr. Ries) 2 feet 



White sand 2 feet 



Mottled clay, red and white 3 feet 



