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"Lower down on the York river the Miocene is met with once more six miles above Yorktown and again at the famous locality, Bellefield, where it is packed with fossil remains of the most varied character, many of them in [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a most perfect state of preservation. Yorktown affords another fine exposure of Miocene fossils, although they are not as abundant as at Bellefield.
" On the James river the Miocene extends from Richmond some distance down the streams but finally disappears beneath its surface as the banks become occupied by younger material. The only other exposures in this river of importance are found at Kings Mill in the vicinity of Williamsburg - At this place, the river has cut into a bank exposing a cliff crowded with finely preserved Miocene fossils - " (p.lxviii)