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1848 to 1867

Memoranda from my note Books

1850-51 [written in pencil 1848 to 1867]

Marble at Bear Creek & in T.10 R.3 East

Iron pyrites - Beautiful specimens at Potosi & Beetown

Tufa 7 miles below Falls of St Croix, used to make lime.

Red Clay - varigated [variegated] with white on Sec 12 J 6 R 7 E [East].

A mastodon tooth found 1 mile north of Palmyra
Jefferson Co. & sent east, many years ago.

Orthocoralite 4 1/2 ft long found at Cottage Grove Dane Co. In
Cabinet of State University Feb 1851

1851

[pen sketch 1] Natural Mound on
Sec 32 - J12 R15 E [East] Burnett - Rolling Pr.

[pen sketch 2] Sloughs at head of
Lake Winnebago near Menasha
separated by sand-ridges.
June 1851

July 1 Sounding Silver Lake (town of Summit) from
N to South 11ft, 22 1/2, 7 1/2, 11 - 27 - 38 -

Lake Beaches at Two rivers
[pen sketch 3, measurements above water]

The first ridge 10 ft high is composed of numerous rounded hillocks
but forming a continuous ridge; between it & the next the
ground is wet in some places - All composed of fine
white sand. Town stands on a sandy plain, 15 or
20 feet above water, based upon red clay with gravel
pebbles. Sandy also some distance back from the
the Lake