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rises in the river bluff, and four miles below Evan's it is found about 

 twenty feet above the river level, associated with sandstone and shale, 

 forming the following section : 



Ft. 



Thin bedded, nodular argillaceous limestone 5 



Evenly bedded sandstone 6 



Sandy shale, "with thin layers of sandstone 15 



The Fiisulina cylindrica and several other species of the fossils enu- 

 merated as occurring at Eyan's ford were found here, but they were 

 less numerous tban at the other locality. 



On Mr. Culltjm's land south-west of Jewett, the S. E. qr. of the S. 

 W. qr. of sec. 26, T. 9, E. S, a quarry has been opened in a hard bluish- 

 gray micaceous sandstone, of which some S to 10 feet is exposed. The 

 rock is very hard, and affords a durable building stone. A quarter of 

 a mile below this quarry, on the main creek, sandy shales form the 

 main portion of the bluff, overlaid by a hard, brittle argillaceous lime- 

 stone, which was seen only in tumbling blocks, indicating a thickness 

 of about IS inches. The beds were nowhere well exposed, but, seemed 

 to hold the following relative position : 



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Hard gray micaceons sandstone.... 8 to 10 



Impure limestone 1 6 



Elue and brown sandy shales 25 to 30 



Following clown the creek these lower shales appear at intervals in 

 the bluffs of the stream nearly to the bridge south of Jewett. North 

 of the bridge towards the town several quarries have been opened in 

 the same bed of sandstone that appears on Mr. Culltjm's place. 



On Long Foint, a tributary of the Embarras, which enters the main 

 river from the eastward six miles south of Greenup, we were unable to 

 find any outcrops of rock, the bluffs of the stream being composed, so 

 far as could be seen, of drift clays from 30 to 40 .feet or more in thick- 

 ness. 



On Webster creek, sec. 33, T. 9, E. 8, a thin coal is found from 4 to 6 

 inches thick, associated with the following beds : 



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No. 1. Elue and brown argillaceous shales 3 



No. 2. Band of brown argillaceous iron ore, with fossils 6 in. to 8 



No. 3. Shaly clay 4 



No. 4. Coal 6 



No. 5, Bituminous sbale 2 



No. 6. Clay shale, partially exposed 10 to 15 



No. 7. Concretionary sandstone and sandy shale 12 to 15 



No. 8. Gray and brown impure limestone 2 



No. 9. Dark gray sandy shales 20 to 25 



The band of argillaceous iron stone, or more properly speaking an 

 argillo-ferruginous limestone, contains numerous fossil shells in a fine 

 state of preservation, among which the JEuompludus sub-rugosus was 

 most abundant, associated with Aviculopecten carbonifents, Yoldia sub- 



