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of Escambia Bay, a few miles farther west, which in turn are 
doubtless of the same age as those on Perdido and Mobile Bays in 
Baldwin County, Alabama, which Dr. Eugene A. Smith regards 
as representing the Grand Gulf formation.* The logs and stumps 
in Nos. 3 and 4 seem to represent both pine and cypress,f and the 
whole appearance of the place suggests the remains of a cypress 
pond or bay. The gray color of the lowest stratum is doubtless 
due to the effect of the vegetable acids on the iron compounds in the 
soil, as can be observed under almost any modern bog or swamp 
that is shallow enough to dig through. 
*See his report on the Underground Water Resources of Alabama, plates 
18 and 19. 1907. 
fMr. Edward W. Berry, while doing paleobotanical work for the U. S. Geo¬ 
logical Survey, visited this locality with me on Sept. 19 and 20, 1910, and made 
collections of the fossil plants, but up to the present writing he has not had op¬ 
portunity to study them carefully. 
