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of the sandstoens. No fossiliferous layers were noticed in passing.
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Point opposite San Diego
near Coronato Hotel.
At the SW corner under the hotel verandah the spot from which Dr. Stearns collected many Pleistocene fossils in 1887 is now covered in with planking and [[rip?]] cap to protect the bank from the encroachments of the sea.
A little further south and east the furnaces, gas & electrical works of the Hotel are situated against a bank having a southern exposure on Glorieta Bay. In the lower part of this bank the fossiliferous stratum exists and is visible, being at this point about 6 inches thick, covered with horizontal thin layers of sand some of which are more muddy than others. The total thickness