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we come upon a mass of much crushed and contorted schists, cut every where by quartz and jasper veins of various sizes. These quartz veins furnish the pebbles found in the later sandstone and clayey layers, together with cobbles composed of the harder parts of the schistose rock. The sandstones lie unconformably against and over the schist, somewhat as at Redding. the lower layers as described are full of worn fragments of shell but none in their natural shape, condition or position. The upper layers vary in composition, but are more largely sandy, and with numerous sandy concretions surrounded with thin layers of iron oxide, and here and there vegetable remains but