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The only fossils found were a few brachiopods scattered 

 through the shale and several impressions of Liorhynchus on 

 the lower surface of a sandy layer. 



On the east side of the valley of Cazenovia creek, V/ 2 miles 

 north of Holland, the sandstones of the Portageville horizon 

 are exposed in an old quarry and other places near the rail- 

 road, and the black shales that succeed them may be seen in 

 the bed of the stream in the village. 



In a small ravine on the east side of the valley a little north 

 of the railroad station, there is an exposure that begins about 

 50 feet above the sandstones, in which there occurs, 100 feet 

 above the bottom, a layer of calcareous sandstone a foot or 

 more thick, of the same character as the one in this horizon 

 in the Java Village ravine, except that no fossils were found 

 in it. A loose slab, fallen apparently from but a few feet 

 higher, contained Liorhynchus, Ambocoelia umbonata 

 and Orbiculoidea. 



Stations in the Tonawanda creek valley 



25 Along the Tannery brook, 1 mile west of Attica. Exposed: 



upper Genesee, the Middlesex shales of the Portage and 

 the Cashaqua shales. 



26 Along Tonawanda creek and the railroad at Sierks station, 



4 miles south of Attica. The top of the Rhinestreet shales 

 and base of the Bristol shales. 



27 Old quarry at the top of the hill on the west side, iy 2 miles 



south of Sierks. The Gardeau beds and the base of the 

 Portage sandstones. 



28 Ravine on west side at Varysburg. Gardeau beds and the 



Portage sandstones. 



29 The Stony brook ravine east of Varysburg. Gardeau beds. 



30 Young's quarry, and along the east branch of Tonawanda 



creek, 4 miles south of Johnsonburg. Fossiliferous sand- 

 stone. 



