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claim a case like this as corroborative of their view, and might do 

 so with some reason, if a hollow only had here been excavated from the 

 limestone surface, no other signs of disturbance affecting the neighbour- 

 hood. But the sudden disappearance of this limestone, elsewhere con- 

 tinuous, and the prevalence of faults at no great distance, leave an im- 

 partial observer little doubt that one of the many dislocations of the 

 country has here taken place, resulting perhaps from extreme tension or 

 even traction of highly convoluted beds unable to yield further to a con- 

 torting force that may have been accompanied by some amount of 

 stretching effect. 



The limestone re-appears about half a mile to the eastward at a 

 Re-appearance of the little distan ce from a rectangular bend m t\e 

 limestone. stream, thence forming the northern side of the 



ellipsoid. Here, again, the shelly band in No. 5 of the above section 

 re-appears, the fossils, however, being too obscure to give much hope of 

 their determination. 



To the southward where the river leaves the gypsum and limestone 

 Bozba gorge: disturb- by a rocky gorge near BozU B^nda the strata 

 ance \ are also much disturbed; the southern rib of lime- 



stone, which half a mile to the west has a thickness of 50 or 60 feet, is 

 here represented by only a few beds, and these on the left bank of the 

 stream are inverted, inclined to the north and crushed over to the ter- 

 tiary sandstone series, yet at a short distance may be traced higher 

 up upon the hill overlooking the river on this side, recovering their 

 position, and with the overlying sandstone beds assuming the southerly 

 slope proper to that side of the anticlinal curve. 



At this place, too, a mass of gypsum occurs in an unusual position 



Gypsum again in num. withiu the lower *ummulitic beds, and with much 

 mulltlc - less regularity than is observable in the cases 



mentioned with regard to the intercalation of gypsum bands nearly in 

 the same relative situation not far from where the meridian 71° crosses 



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