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 FIG. 42.-Plant of F orida China Clay Co., near Okahumpka, Lake County.


















 FIG. 43.-Removal of overburden by hydraulicking. Florida China Clay Company, Lake County.

low and more or less connected and largely land-locked, as is now illustrated by the numerous bays and sounds indenting the Florida coastline, then it is easy to conceive of a more or less continuous deposit of this sedimentary kaolin being formed around the border of the peninsula as it existed at that time. This formation has since been largely re-