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fossils are all silicified and there are chalecdonic masses. In other places, the rock contains nothing but cavities representing the shells which have been dissolved away. The species are the same in either case and identical with the silicified ones of Ballast Point. They are chiefly marine at this point with drifted landshells further up. The nummulitic rock may be younger [[insertion]] and different (oligocene?) [[/insertion]] or the upper part of the same series (Miocene).

____Feb. 14th.1887________
Go over to Dr Knowles' and see specimens of the Miocene rock with casts from several places near Tampa

____Feb. 16th 1887.__
Driving over from Braidentown to Sarasota and about a mile

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from the latter place in the gully of a small rivulet half a mile from the sea, encounter the Miocene limestone with moulds of dissolved shells, again.
At Sarasota on the beach near the head of the wharf is an exposure of sandy rock resembling that of Lake Monroe [[insertion]] but occasionally ferrugirous [[/insertion]] and containing a few indistinguishable vegetable impressions and (probably recent) specimens of Helix of the group Polygyra. Vincent has Conrad's Panopea from rocks near the town. Human bones from the Sandstone further south.

_____Feb. 17th 1887_________
At Osprey along the beach of Little Sarasota Bay south of Judge Webb's there are beds of recent shells, with bits of Indian