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its prominent development near that village, and will be considered as 
a part of the Clinton Group. 
The first, and by far the most important series of exposures to be 
mentioned, are those included in the Soldiers’ Home district. 
SOLDIERS’ HOME QUARRIES. 
The Soldiers’ Home grounds, embracing about a square mile of 
land, are situated two and a half miles west of Dayton, on a series of 
hills overlooking the city. At their foot, exposures of the Lower Si- 
lurian strata are frequent, but at their top, rocks of the Upper Silurian 
age take their rise, and have a steady dip towards the west, bringing 
up, one after the other, the formations of a higher age. 
