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Cape Virgins. May 17th. [1834] — East side

Cliff supposed to be between 200 & 300 feet. no proof slate ended split more than the sandstone. surface tolerably level; no shingle: rather more vegetation. general substance yellow, soft, fine grained laminated sandstone: (like East coast & head of S. C. River)

interstratified with it are beds 10 to 20. & some only few less of hard. blackish muddy clay (or indurated mud) containing very many fragments 1/4 of inch of slate rock, there were larger masses (2 fists to 1/2 head) of syenite & greenstone. —

Clearly belongs to East coast formations

no organic remains. — M^r Stokes.

The interstratified beds of hardened

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mud, are generally horizontal, some times waving. & thinning out at each end at no great distance apart; it occurs in no regular order in the sandstone generally 3 or 4 beds in the cliffs. —

About 2 feet of vegetable soil. — Cliffs extend 18 miles up the coast where I imagine valley with outlyers separate Pat. from T. del Fuego. —

V. Specimen of sandstone & sand

Rocks off. C. Francisco de Paulo & C. Virgins.

The Friars outlying hills in gr. oyster bed:

Stony ridges. off C. Virgins: cause of line of coast: probable from sounding nature & depth & productions & direction:

Cliffs. from C. Virgins to Possession: latter higher undulatory. — originate or effects of currents during elevations. —