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mottled than higher up.
The yellow loess is just like that of western Harrison co.  It has fossils all through, but rather more above.  A few very large iron nodules.
Base of cut 1445 (bottom 5ft lower)
About 150 yrds long,
Top of road 1472

Yellow loess in 3 cuts. See map. - sec. 15-79-40

[[underlined]] Cut 57 [[/underlined]] Cut q. is long, yellow above, just a little gray towards base & red muck at base.

Stopped at Portsmouth.
Dinner at Portsmouth Restaurant
Feed Barn.

RR. 1360
1412 is top of ridge above r.
[[underlined]] cut 58 [[/underlined]] cut r. faces N. - shallow, along road, shows drift almost to
 
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top of ridge (not its highest part)  There is only a thin veneer of yellow loess on top.

[[underlined]] cut 59 [[/underlined]] s. - shows mostly drift.

[[underlined]] cut 60 [[/underlined]] t. - (on N. & top & S. side
shows yellow loess above a foot or so of gray loess.  Oxidized layer above gray loess strong in iron on SE. side. Southern, down hill, drift shows again.

[[underlined]] cut 61 [[/underlined]]
u facing S. - shows drift well up. Indistinct gray, then yellow, not thick.
            1480 ft.
On high prairie saw here
Polygonum rarum
Iva xanthifolia
Verbena stricta
[[Apurym cam?]]

[[underlined]] cut 62 [[/underlined]] v. shows the thick yellow loess (10-12 ft. exposed) with few large nodules & fragments of shells, Recognized S. avara