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May 15 
Shipped 4 kegs from Morristown then went to a point about 2 miles SW of Bulls Gap to see Lenoir, Whitesburg and Athens. Lenoir is cobbly limestone breaking down to glady exposures where frost can get at it. Fossils are scarce. Machurites occurs not far from the bottom. Other fossils seen
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were Rhynchocansara, Rafinesquina, Hesperorthis, Valcourea and a flat sponge.

Lenoir is succeeded abruptly by Whitesburg, a thin-bedded, dark fine-grained to smooth limestone. This breaks down to slabs and pieces. The exposure is mainly of slopes strewn 
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with the fragments. There are about 300 feet of this formation. Fossils are abundant in some of the layers.

In afternoon saw the Athens east of Bulls Gap along a stream under the R R about 1/2 miles east of the R R Station. Here it was a limestone in beds up to 6" thick. Higher in the section the Athens is blue-gray calcareoarenaceous shale that weathers to a soft punky rock. Fossils are rare.