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Smiths Point. Youngs's Bay. Astoria - West of town, last of the high hills on N side of the Columbia bears N. 50°W. The N. head at entrance Columbia River bears N. 78°W.

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a. 8 to 20 feet thick
Yellowish clayey sand with irregular mostly rounded stones maculated with peroxide of iron, mostly sand some few clayey with traces of marine fossils, also more or less gravel; not regularly bedded and penetrating into the layer below. 
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b dips about 16°S and about the same strike to SE by S. Exposure abt. 15 ft. vertical at highest. Composed of regular thin layers of chiefly a bluish gray clay with numerous fractures lined with peroxide of iron which develop more nu-
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