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Memo --

1852

R.W Wrights well -- Waukesha

Soil 1 1/2 feet

Hardpan 1 1/2 making 3

Gravel, small pebbles 1 making 4

Sand 1 making 5

Large pebbles & sand 4 making 9

Gravel cemented by clay, very hard 10 making 19

Sand & some water 1 making 20

Reddish clay & pebbles 5 " 25 - In this found fossil wood, a
log 6oz 8 inches diam, lying down;
also a root with bark

Sand & pebbles 7 - 32 to solid limestone

Well situated on the hill near Carrol College
Limestone found near this well at 20 feet

A similar well on SW1/4 34-5-19 E - afforded
wood at depth of 19 feet, supposed to be tamarac

Sulphur Ch Bracken's mire 60 feet below surface

Cubical crystals of lead coaed with lime - at Min Pt. [Mineral Point]

Notes about Mineral Point, list of fossils & see notebook 1851-2

1855

Jaw of a Mastodon at Vinegar Hill 5 miles north
of Galena Ill [Illinois].

Wood 26 feet below surface Set 23 T23 R21 E
two cedar trees - clay on gravel

(1848)

Limestone on School section, town of Fullon 16 - 4 - 12. E

Rocks dip E & W from Sugar river (W of Madison)

Cave on NE 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Sec 5 T6 R8 E

White sandstone near Haneys sec 11-7-7 E -- also
near west end of 4th lake

Boulder drift boundary near East side of Cross Plaines [Cross Plains]

Sandstone above limestone Sec 28 T8 R10 E

Limestone on Sec 5 & 3 T8 R11 Sun Pr [Sun Prairie]