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FOSSIL BEARING ROCK FROM KENTUCKY

"The central part of the United States from the Appalachien Range to the Rocky Mountain Range was once a great sea. Ordinary fish, sea worms and shell fish died in countless numbers, and their bodies sank to the bottom and were covered by drifting, fine sand. Other countless tiny sea denizens with a great amount of lime in their shells and bones, died and sank and the lime of their shells and bones cemented the fine sand into lime stone. In this lime stone was embedded and preserved many of the shells and a few of the fishes and worms, though most of the latter rotted and left no imprint in the stone. In some places this stone is so abundant the farmers build rock walls of it.

This particular piece of stone is studded with the shells and imprints of ancient marine creatures. It was found in the bank of a railroad cut through a small mountain near Maysville, Kentucky."

This interesting account was prepared by Mr. J. H. Howard, of Greenville, who kindly gave us the fossil.
Mr. Howard also prepared the account of the pseudomorph on the opposite page which he also donated to camp.