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 up we saw many dead snail shells, but none alive, on base of slope, where the black shales underlaid the surface. On the way back it was raining and live ones were crawling about by hundreds, under many kinds of bushes including, ,  and a small sour apple. Apparently  and  are mingled, the former predominating, if I am correct in assigning all without the red spiral line to that species. As many as 25 could be found under a bush two feet in diameter and the same in height. There were about as many under the as anywhere. Up the slope on the sandstone there were none seen by us, either dead or alive. Returned to campo at 5 p.m. quite wet and tired. At camp saw and. The channels cut in the lower Mancos shales just above the sandstone, where we found the