— “ The lowest rocks in the section are found In the cut or; the Erie 
Railroad, at th c curve about one third of a mile south of east of the 
bridge River. Altogether there is a section over 
JunSed WrL long, and varying in height from ten to thirty feet The 
line of Hutirop e'Xtenda'in a northwest line , and exposes a dip of toe 
feet to four rails, or exactly two hundred feet to the mile, i - 
„ . v + friable slightly arenaceous shales, 
1. Eleven feet of light gray, iriaoie, Wfl + . rc , 
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18 apparently a rolled boulder of Waterlime. These beds are WY. 80 oo.and 
overly a fifteen inch layer of sands ^ e * tl v , 1Ul sands 
2 Four feet of friable, gray shale, alternating tun f 
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to thin i" to -V slates or flags, which are smooth, horizontally gra 
very even and barren. fissile, arenaceous shales with 
f / 4-, Three and. one half ieet oi gr y, 
one or two hard bands. four feet of extremely har ■ 
"gray sandstone, usually brown mottled l^r iV 
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thick land contains this Ceratopora in predominance, though a couple of 
rugose corals are also found. Among the brachiopoda are Atrypa aspera, 
Spirifer disjunctus , Schizophoria tioga, while a single P.terinea cheimag 
ungens is and a couple of small Modiomorphoid lamellibranchs were also 
found. In the uppermost portion of this band are many Planolites? tubes , 
but most of these seem to be vertical. The middle twenty inches of the 
sandstone are the most fossilif erous, 
6. WY.80 oo. 2. . . 5# feet of very friable shale mostly pure and barren 
but a little more arenaceous and fossilif erous in the upper portion and 
containing a single Spirifer, a couple of Productellas, and a small Mod- 
iomorphoid, together with a Nucula. 
7. WY.8QOO 3... Two feet of gray sandst one in lower hard ten inch 
layer of which is a two inch Ceratopora seam. 
n/j 8.WY.8G oo 4... Twelve feet of very coarse vjray shales with a few 2" 
bard bands, the upper few feet becoming almost sandstone and very blocky 
Foss ils are very scarce, a couple of Schizophorias, Stropheodontas, Nu- 
culas, and Pterineas. 
Just above the highest of these beds and to the northwest aloj^c^ 
the railroad embankment is a more or less famous spring issuing from the 
rocks, and which was known even among the Indians.lt was used up to a 
few years ago as a watering trough and is called Fulk's Spring. Ihere is 
a stream of water two inches thick and which has never been known to 
have dried up. The rocks around this spring were not studied very veil , 
but no very fossilif erous seams arc present. There is an interval of 15 
