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W. sec. S. side Cut 3 [[image - sketch of cross section of soil strata]] [[image captions]] [[top layer]]Brown loess 3 ft [[middle layer]]Loess - yellow [[bottom layer]]Drift 6 ft | 6ft | 6ft [[base line of sketch:"a" at left end; (b) at right end of line, labeled "115 long"]] [[strikethrough note at right of sketch with line to slope angle correction]] Slope too abrupt [[/strikethrough]] [[/image captions]] Buchanan gravel shows, following old surface, with two lines of boulders (small) [[end page]] [[start page]] [[image - sketch of cross section of soil strata]] [[image captions]] Part of cut 3 (see above) loess Buchanana 11 paces Fossilif. Fossiliferous yellow loess } 2ft To end of cut = 85 yds oxidized Rises 2 ft above base of cut cut is here 65 ft wide 115 paces (b) 2ft Gray loess, mucky - with many iron tubes - fossils yellow, with iron tubes, clouding & bands & fossils The (upper) yellow part, is divided in two by an oxidized belt 3-4 in wide - Fossils appear above & below this. On N. side at E. end the edge of blue muck is 12 ft [[underline]]above line [[/underline]] Took only fossils from blue stuff on S. side.
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At bottom of page 1 I changed "inch two lines" to "with 2 lines"--thomasc