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Cummins^ W. F. 
“The route of travel was, therefore, selected s-o as to enable me to make 
consecutive o'bservations of the stratigraphy of the Triassic, to visit the 
beveral loealities where the Tertiary fossils were known to exist, as well as 
other localities likely to furnish fossils of that formation, and at the same 
time to collect fossils from the Triassic without making a special trip 
for that purpose, and then be in a position to go into the Permian wiith 
as little travel as possible. 
“Prof. E. D. Cope, of Philadelphia, the eminent vertebrate paleontologist, 
had volunteered to accompany me on the expedition and assist in making 
collections. His offer was gladly accepted, and he was with me part of 
the summer, and rendered invaluable .service. 
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“'We traveled northward along the eastern escarpment of the Staked 
Plains as far as the town of Dickens, in Dickens county, a distance of 
about 150 miles; thence up Planeo Canyon to Mount Blanco; thence east 
across the higher plateau, and reached the eastern edge of the Staked 
Plains at Dutchman creek; thence northward along the base of the Plains 
to Clarendon; thence west to IGrOodnight and the mouth of Mulberry Can- 
yon, and south to the mouth of Palo Duro Canyon; thence up the south 
side of the canyon to its head, twelve miles south of Amarillo. Prom 
Amarillo we went south to the head of Tule Canyon, in Swisher county, 
a distance of about seventy-ffve miles; thence down the north side of that 
canyon to its confluence with Palo Duro Canyon, and thence to. Clarendon. 
This completed tJie exploration of the Tertiary and Triassic. Erom Clar- 
endon we traveled southeast to Quanah, a distance of 100 miles; thence, 
turning southwest, crossed Pease river at the mouth of Catfish creek; 
thence south to the head of Oood creek, and down that creek to its junc- 
tion with the north prong of the )Big Wichita river; thence, turning south- 
eastward, down the divide between the Big Wichita and Beaver creek, went 
as far as the northeast corner of Baylor county; thence south, near the 
east line of Baylor county, to the Brazos river. Crossing the Brazos, we 
turned southwestward up Miller’s creek to its source, and thence west 
back to the Brazos, recrossing it a few miles east of Kiowa Peak, in the 
northeast corner of Btonewall county, and thence to the iSalt Fork of the 
Brazos, and up that stream to the mouth of Salt Croton creek, and up that 
creek to the Falls, 
“From this point we traveled north to the town of Guthrie, the county 
seat of King county, situated on the south prong of the Big Wichita river; 
thence turned eastward through the towns of Benjamin, (Seymour, Archer, 
and Henrietta, to the eastern edge of the Upper Cross (Timbers; thence 
turning southward, we passed through Bowie, Decatur, and Lewisville to 
Arlington; in the eastern edge of ’Tarrant county, where I disbanded my 
party and sent my camping outfit into iwinter quarters near Austin, having 
been in the field six months.” Pp. 179-180. 
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A Question of Priority. 
Amer. Gi-eologist, Vol. XV, pp. 395-396. Manneapolis, June, 
1895. 
