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In sec. 27, T. 6 If., E. 6 E., on a small branch tributary to Eanisey, 

 we get : 



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1. (10 of county section.) Brown, soft sandstone, towards the bottom hard and gray ; plants in 



the npper part ; at the bottom there is a calcareous bed containing Nautilus occidentalis, 

 Macrocheilus (small sp.), Diplodus, etc 8 



2. Fine grained, dark dove-colored limestone containing some very nice fossils, Shynchonella, 



Osagensis. Productus costatus, P. longispinus, P. Prattenianus, Muomphalus sub-rugosus, 

 Schuodus, Orthoceras cribrosum, Goniatites 1 



This limestone is also found on P. H. Hume's land, in sec. 35, T. 7 N., 

 E. 6 E., containing only Productus longispinus. On Shoal creek there is 

 a limestone which may also be its equivalent. 



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3. (Last secUon continued.) Bituminous shale, containing a bed of carbonized and silicifled 



wood, also a 1^-inch bed of pyritiferous limestone 4^ 



4. Clay shale 4 



5. (14 of county section.) Hard sandstone and shale : ]o 



On the Wabash river, near the south county line, the last named 

 sandy shales are thirty feet thick, containing, in the upper part, lenticu- 

 lar and regular beds of iroustone, with ferns and Calamites. It is often 

 very pyritiferous, as seen at the old mill on Fulfer creek, one mile from 

 Little Wabash river, also in the Wabash bluffs at the railroad, where it 

 contains some finely striated stems of plants. On Big creek we find the 

 sandstone containing similar stems and some ferns. There is also on 

 Big creek twenty to forty feet of drab, dove and dark-colored sandy 

 shales containing ironstone concretions, some of the latter with spherical 

 shaped small brown balls embedded in the side of the concretion. 



On Little Wabash river, in sec. 35, T. 7 N., E. 5 E., there is an out ■ 

 crop of rocks as follows (Nos. 11 and 12 of county section) : 



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 1- Eongh dark calcareous shale or shaly limestone and shales, abounds in Spirifer plano-convexus, 

 Nuculu ventricosa, Productuslongispinus; also contains Athyris subtitita, Productus costatus, 



Bellerophon, etc 2 



2 Blue and bituminous shales 1. 3 



3. Dark-bluish olive argillaceous shale 7 



A quarter of a mile below, thirty feet of hard, gray and yellow sand- 

 stone forms the river bluff; in it are found plants, Calamites and fruit. 

 On a small branch of Falter creek, in sec. 2, T. 6 ~N., E. 5 E., there are 

 thick beds of brown and buff sandstone (No. 10); tracing it around the 

 bluff to the creek it is high up in the hill ; a little further, on a lower 

 horizon, there are outcrops of bituminous shale and limestone, evidently 

 belonging to No. 13 of county section. One mile up the creek, at an 

 old mill site, a fine section, including parts of 12, 13 and 14, was obtained, 

 as follows : 



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1. Various colored shales with lenticular beds of carbonate of iron. In a gray shale at the 



base are found casts of Lophophyllum proli/erum and Spirifer plano-convexus 25 



2. Blue shales and calcareous iron stone; fossils very abundant in both, including Prod. 



castalus, Sp. plano-convexus, Ortkis carbonaria, Leda arata, Athyris subtilita, Ortho- 

 ceraa, Pleurotomaria GrayviUenxis, IHplodus 2 



3. Blue clay shales 3 



