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foregoing. The Ashley beds are Miocene, at least the rock he describes is Miocene, though there is the possibility that part of the group he refers to the "Ashley" may be Oligocene. There has been no careful reexamination of these beds since Tuomeys time and his list of fossils are muddled and his stratigraphical correlations unreliable, except in broad lines. He included in his "Eocene", the Oligocene and part of the Miocene. The lower Eocene of the Gulf States has not been recognized yet in S. Carolina, and Tuomey supposed that the Eocene he found, represented the whole column; where as it only covers the Claibornian and Jacksonian or middle and Upper Eocene.
Yours very truly, 
Wm. H. Dall