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[Left Page] 18 Yellow Bud Creek a little time in the afternoon when we took a walk a little dista- nce from the house to ex- amine a quarry of pudding-stone or of Breccia lately discovered by father. These [masses?] of cemented gravel are frequent thro- ughout Ohio -- Astratum of gravel belong to the antedi- luvion formation, which is found in the river bottoms throughout the state is occa- sionally cemented by springs running through them whose water is impregnated [*Variety Crag] [Right Page] Yellow Bud Creek 19 with calcereous or ferrigneous particles which being depos- itied in the interstices between the gravel, formes [forms] the cement which Nov 24 Manday [Monday] This morning on cutting open a turnip I discovered a cavity in which was a young sprout of this plant bearing an exact resemblance to this plant when it first makes its appearance above the ground in the spring Darius went to Chillicothe today and in the evening returned and brought a letter from Dr. Hildreth of Marrieta O.