Eastern Kansas and Nebraska. 165 
from St. Joseph to the Cretaceous above Bellevue, belong to one 
c 
series; while his reference of these several outerops to such 
widely different epochs, and his supposition that the beds he calls 
Mountain Limestone, form island-like masses, between those he 
tefers to the Permian or so-called Dyas, were deposited uncon- 
formably, however honestly believed by lim, may be all set down 
as purely imaginary. If 
In 1859, the writer and Dr, Hayden, who were dircetly inter- 
ested inthe Permian discovery, and naturally desired, and confi- 
dently ex pected, to find somewhere a break between the Permian 
0 point, but followed up the valleys of the streams on horse- 
back, with ae 
os examining the various beds and seams, inch by inch, collect- 
Ng all the fossils they could find, and carefully keeping separate 
from the different strata and seams, they completely satisfied 
~~ Sc1.—Srconp Series, Vou. XXXIX, No. 116.—Maxcu, 1865. 
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