also unfortunately apt to be connected to or partly incorporated in the nodules of ironstone & are traversed in all directions by lines of fracture. Picked up a few which found lying loose & which seemed capable of identification. A prolonged search in these hills would probably reveal localities where the bones are more abundant & better preserved. They occur so far as I know, or as secton shows, below the lowest lignite some distance.

The General Character of Sections in this region appears to point to conclusion (as at present translated) of dying away of lignite bearing series about this point. The beds below those bearing much lignite seem to come up to surface. In this case the lignite seen in hills today would represent the lowest known & the vertebrate remains would come from lower beds than any seen last year. Perhaps verging on Cretaceous. If this conclusion just, should come on well marked Cretaceous shortly to West of this. It would appear that the.dark clays seen in lowest part of section in Brook today belong to same series as the dark & sombre clays so extensively developed in the valley of the creek at the astronomical station 10 miles West. From marine aspect of few fossils found these sombre clays may even represent the top of the Cretaceous. The supposition that lower beds coming up to West borne out by fact that on going W. towards astronomical stn. from the broken country the sombre clays rise up & form the tops of the hills much more rapidly than would be accounted for by any slope of the ground. Section showing the