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[[image - line down left margin of page]] 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 [[end page]] [[start page]] [[image - line down left margin of page]] 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