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October 16, -continued 
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and head of Doag Creek and reach the White House Landing but failed 
by bearing too much to the left and coming out at the mouth of Doag 
Creek. The bluff on the Potomac side is here some 30 feet high, the 
upper half being occupied with Pleistocene. Below this are 7 or 8 feet of 
marine, mostly Chesapeake sand. The lower 7 or 8 feet are coarse 
nearly white Potomac sands, but at the very top of these there was 
found at one point buff colored clay, nicely laminated and full of 
vegetable remains. I spent an hour collecting and got all I could carry. 
They are mostly dicotyledons, very remarkable in character including 
Menispermitis and crenate toothed leaves 
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that seem different from those found at Ft. Foote or at Snows in 
Alabama. Some look much like Populus. There are other types, 
including one with the blade deeply cut into narrow lobes with rounded 
sinuses. One specimen seems to show the [[culm?]] of a grass 
characteristically bent, and there are some small objects resembling 
inflorescence. 
[[indent]]This bluff is mostly overgrown with trees, shrubs, and other 
vegetation, and there is much talus, but wherever I could get through 
these at low levels & found Potomac sand. 
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Local field note-book of Lester Ward 
Transcribed and Reviewed by Digital Volunteers 
Extracted Oct-11-2015 07:35:03 
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