ly partings and on under side rf the harder bands 
P . * . ITH „ 12M|6^. .THIS IS AN EXTPEMELY HARD ,GP TTTY ,SS .PA ND 
nearly one fort thick, and grey in color. It contains on the under 
side a three inch hard M non-weather leg calcareous band ful l of 
Prcductella lachrymosa and Spirifer cf .granu losus .Orthr thetes 
chewungehs i s , At ry p a aspera, Chonet es and Stropheodcntas were also 
present..., ..In the n* in portion of the sandstone band, a small 
single Prodvotella was seen, and .a St romato pore id coral resemblinj 
Cent rest on a was found ,-XTH .12M6 A* 
10.* Above this sandstone bancT, are eleven feet of thin-bedded 
dark purplish gray slaftes , about V* thick, and usually with a 
litt le b It of m lea , ( 11C6-H77 ) . 
11 .. .1177-1180 .. .Gray arenaceous shale .Nr fossils, 
lg.. At 1280 is a 3” band o f more or less columnar sandstone 
covered wit! three inches of gray shale, which is in turn cappedbv 
13 . . .ITH.12M^)t'.‘. . .This is a 2#” layer of somewhat harder gray, 
arenaceous slale, containing abundantly Dalmanelia leorefjsls and 
Schizophorias , AND CONTAINING THE FIRST SPECIMENS OF SP.DISJUNCT- 
us met with m the sect ion .Some small lame 1 1 lb ranch s , the rnl\ 
qnes met with in the section's lower few hundredfeet are here 
found also ,, Another feature of these beds is that they contain 
many fragments of Pleuro^crrar ia of .capillar ia . 
14 ?12 8 O' -1235.. .Two feet red stained shales ( erternally ) . 
15.3282- 1285 .. .Columnar ss .and very impure ^coarse shale 
16 ,3285-12?*4 .Red shales . 
17*3£©4- 1315, .Father arenaceous gray shale alternating w th 
i”-3 M columnar bands . 
18,1335-1335 ., .Dark gray ,fri able slaty shale, with eight ine 
ci.es red shale up to 1317, above which the slaty beds continue 
up to 1335 .. In the upper part a little red shale enters. Also in 
the upper ten to fifteen feet, there are several columnar sardst 
stone bands , which form small cascades- 
