224 On the Lower Cretaceous beds of Kansas and Nebraska, e 
In the lower part of the hill the ‘tip x sandstone was exposed,” 
Report Sec’y War, Dec. 5, 1857, p = 
Again it has been seen by eal otal at different times — 
near Little Blue river, not far from the Kansas and Nebraska — 
line,—lat. 40° and a Tittle west of the 97° of west co : 
Here at an elevation of about 700 feet above the Missouri 
Leavenworth, or three hundred feet below the horizon of o 
localities on Republican fork, and, five hundred feet below the 
rebbwgs ae the outcrops seen by us on the summits of 
or Pgs , our deceased friend, Mr. Henry Pratthen, saw neat 
Wye s creek, i in 1853, the following exposures in descending 
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1. Slope, height not given 
2, Yellow and whitish limestone filled with casts 
of Inoceramus, referred by him to J. myteloides > No. 3, obra 
=F) problematicus. 
oro thickness not give No. 2, Nebraska Set -. 
ed ferruginous sandstiba with leaves of dico- eC. 
tyledonou res 88. f } No.1, ag 
A short distance west of this exposure Dr. J. G “Coop it 
forms us he saw outcrops of a red sandstone in the wo e 
about the same elevation; and above this, exposures © 
gray laminated clay answering exactly to the denigtttl ‘on a 
of the Nebraska section, while above the latter, near the 
the hills, he met with outerops of light colored limestone ae 
numerous casts of Inoceramus. 
At other localities not far to the southwest of the vate 
. Hawn saw exposures of light colored limestone forty: a 
in thickness, containing great numbers of Inoceramus be 
ferred, from specimens sent by him, to J. problemati sar 
this have was a slope of twenty-seven feet in which ihe 
exposures, while still lower he observed a of da 
nous and yellow sandstone, _ —— colored clays 
___ stons of leaves, resembling posed, those ceed 
willows. ses his osetion ‘published Boyan 
tee 
rom ‘a 
find « on ating the ics fork of Platte river, neat aon 
limits of the Pawnee Alban Peano of the light col” 
noceramus beds already mentioned, (No. 3, Ne braska sect 
near the water’s edge i - at the mouth of Loup fork, 
BWW habe ‘refeinid this. speties to lematieus with a si Bad 
same species inscribed by Dr. Schiel in eaoae ego of the than is ¢ 
