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[[stamped]] 0040 [[/stamped]]

To SW of Furnace.

In afternoon visited Blue Mound Glade which can be reached 1 1/2 miles to west of hotel and then take indistinct road going west from sharp angle in old Furnace road. Follow old road for 730 paces bearing left at both forks. Take left bend at fence & cross creek; glade is up hill from creek. Collecting excellent and horizon is same as that in base of exposed section in hill NW of Furnace.

[[vertical, in left margin]] All magnetic north
Start at L of road
N 70 W 251
W 119
S 55 W 24 to Creek + 46
S 80 W 260 to center of glade [[end left margin note]]

Sept. 17 - Revisited Blue Mound glade and relocated it as 730 paces almost due west of angle of road or 600 yards (0.3) mi. Collecting excellent and found over 100 [[underline]] Gypidula/roemeri [[/underline]].

Visited glade about 0.2 - 3 mi. north to NNE of right angle bend of county road about one mile west of bend at Visetown. Lower 15 - 25' of Beech River exposed. Collecting poor. Dixon at base of Glade

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Collected for 2 hours at glade just S of Mt Lebanon school. Fossils abundant but poor. At intersection of county road and old road Dixon is well exposed. Collecting was in lower 15 - 20' of Beech River division

Sept. 18 - At intersection of Brownsport Landing and Visetown road the Dixon is exposed in the road bed and to east of Visetown road. About 100 yds. east of Visetown road the Dixon is overlain by about 3' of shale & 6" limestone beds containing [[underline]] Pisocrinus [[/underline]] and a few other fossils. A light gray clay on Dixon contains the small crinoids but they also occur in shale above   

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