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alone rise above the water. Between the landing and Blountstown, 

 three miles westward, there is a shoal in the river, popularly reported 

 to be rocky, but too much covered to be examined without a dredge. 



Blountstown. — Blountstown, named from the village of an ancient chief 

 called Blount by the whites, is in township 1 south, range 8 west, section 

 3, on the right bank of the river. A short distance above the landing is 

 a large mound, formerly occupied by the Indians as a village site. The 

 bank at this place, which contains several dwellings, a store, the county 

 courthouse and a primitive jail, is chiefl}^ composed of clayey alluvium, 

 and is partly overflowed at high water in the river. High water in 1886 

 left a mark on the houses 4 feet above the ground. About eight fniles 

 westward is the Chipola river, flowing in a southerly direction, on the 

 banks of which are several outcrops of the Chesapeake and Chipola beds, 

 in which the fossils are in a better state of preservation than at Alum 

 bluff, and the Chipola marl may be observed resting conformably upon 

 the Chattahoochee limestone. The water being extremely low, within a 

 foot or two of its lowest observed stage, as we were informed, the oppor- 

 tunity was extremely favorable for examining these o.utcrops. Obtain- 

 ing a conveyance, we drove from Blountstown over to the Chipola river 

 to inspect them. 



Baileys Ferry and Section. — The principal localities of interest on the 

 Chipola river are those near a point called Baileys ferry, where a bridge 

 has replaced a former ferry, but no village exists, the farms being scat- 

 tered. This ferry is not on any map, but is believed to be situated in 

 township 1 north, range 9 west, section 32. Just above the bridge, on 

 the right bank, the ferruginous Chipola marl may be seen rising two or 

 three feet above the water's edge, the bank at the lowest stage of the 

 water being six or eight feet high. This is said by residents of the 

 vicinity to be the most northerly point on Chipola river where the yel- 

 low marl is visible in the liank. A few miles west, on a branch known 

 as Ten-mile creek, the Chipola marl rises much higher and reaches so 

 near the surface at Stevens spring that the plow throws out hundreds of 

 fine fossils in turning a furrow. We were not able to visit Mr Stevens' 

 place, but half a mile below the bridge, on the right bank, is a farm be- 

 longing to Mr John McClellan, on which a faii'ly good section can be 

 studied along the river bank, and here the following section was made : 



Section at McClellans Marl-bed, Baileys Ferry. 



Superficial sands, 1 to 3 feet, say 2 feet, 



Chipola marl, varying from 7 to 1- 



Chattahoochee limestone at water's edge, extending below not less than. . 6 



Total thickness -0 



