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found pieces of fossil and also carbonized wood and obscure stems or reedlike impressions of plants.
Later in the morning we crossed to the bight at the NE part of the harbor at the head of which is a flat with a large lagoon dry at l.w. into which a stream runs, ascended here a gully of erosion to the rocks finding barren shales and limestones like those of the eastern side of the bay. Well up I found a caleareous shale with a few plant impressions above which was a heavy bed of conglomerate above which was a hard perhaps Andesitic volcanic rock which from fragments fallen from above seemed be more coarse grained and friable higher up. The