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at places a kind of conglomerated mass, occupying the horizon No. 9, 
which might appear to form a natural line of division between 
containing the Permian fossils, and those above, in which we found no 
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similar to those between the beds and layers of limestone containing the 
ermian fossils in division No. 10, but also precisely like the laminated 
clays between the beds of limestone of the upper Carboniferous series far 
We saw no fossils in these seams amongst the psum-bearing beds, nor 
higher in the series, but it is probable they may yet be found in some of 
the more calcareous portions. 
Another fact apparently indicating some kind of relation between the 
ing beds, as well as some of the higher deposits, and the 
gypsum-bearing 
rocks below, is, that we often find both in the clays between the beds of 
gypsum, and those between the limestone containing the Permian fossils, 
same epoch as the beds containing the Permian fossils below. 
tween No, 5 and the Cretaceous above, there is still a rather ex- 
thing further on that subject here. ee: 
, y stated, our observations along the Kansas valley, to within 
twelve or fourteen miles of the mouth of Big Blue river, were gi 
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his part of the valley, indications of a westward or northwestward incli- 
nation of the strata, we were left in some doubt whether or not there is 
