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Febr 12. 1887.
Buy about 100 specimens of silicified fossils from Ballast Point from Mr. Newman, Mr. Willcox advancing the money. There are 30-40 species in the lot, including two mammalian teeth which should determine the age of the deposit. Find nummulites from well in town.

_______Feb.13.1887__________
Go out with Mr. F.J. Lapenotière to Orient station on Tampa R.R. about 6 miles east of Tampa. Near here the railway crosses a stream which is called Six mile Run, this has cut its way between banks of limestone 10-12 ft. high with a covering of sand. 1-3 ft deep. In the limestone are few fossils and these in rare layers among them is the same Helicina found silicified at Ballast Point the rocks are evidently of the same age

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Near [[insertion]] and in the bed of [[/insertion]] a small stream which runs from a sulphur spring on La Penotières land into Six Mile Run, is a soft limestone rock containing casts of shells 
These casts are not very numerous but include several seen in the the nummulitic rock taken from the well in Tampa City, notably a Galerus and Bulla. From the spring to the Run is a fall of  ft, according to Lapenotière who has had it measured with a view to putting in a [[ram?]]. It comes into the Run about half a mile below the culvert of the RR. above mentioned. At the culvert the stream is small & narrow, but a little way below becomes deep and tidal and quite wide. At one point there are rocks on both sides. These are streaked with bands of chest in which the