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and the point over dark purplish mottled lava
anvils to 125 on the north end of the point appears
a coarse galite like a simple dike and leaning N about
60 West it also appears on the east side of the point. The
extreme northeast corner composed of tuffs, and nearly
SSEdoral purplish lava specimen 17.
There also
appears a few bands of a (basic triff) resembling galite in
texture & specimen in a parallel joint in 5-31.1 near
the sounding 3ft V bearing SSSW from the E end of the
morow island
Due west of the lower end of the point at 1:2
cores of 5-31.1 seeming patch of dark redish purple
mottled lava and the same rock again appears
at the head of the little cove W of the 3 ft sounding
in northern 5-31.4, here associated with grayshale
and marine gray shaly slate-sparite the west
side 5-31.4, also one foot east of the similar null in
# 5-31.4 and near the east end of 5-31.4 scores fragmental
with purple fragmentary ground gray matrix appear - 222
Saturday Sept. 14 '07.
East Side of Wilson's Stream-
On the next side of the little ravine, getting from
1/4 28 to 1.52.3 on Wilson's stream there occur some
massive unporphorous tuffs near this throe and
about 15-20 ft above tide.
A 25 foot galite like occurs east of the ravine
striking N 20° W, while on its west side of the
ravineule and east side town, occur some stratified
and unporphorous tuffs striking N. 45° W, and
dipping 32° N.E. Tuffs then along the east side of
Wilson's stream being mostly granitic and the
red & gray stone in the little low in western
1/5:6, 7 yard on the shore NW, near some porcellaneous
silicrete striking N. 49° W, and dipping 60° N.E. also
works are lavish fine grained slate, differing a bit
in massive thick indurated beds, out foot is 2
feet thick, and maximum 3-50 feet of granitic tuffs
which are imperfectly stratified in the lower 4 ft.
5 feet. The porcellaneous beds are about 10 feet thick
and contain a rich fauna 1.53.4 A, including
Spirifer Vanxworthi,
ycrystara
f octoplicatus
Poronitella
f crispus
Horistoma Actinopterocostata
Dalmanella
Trochocerat
Camarotoechia
Dalmanites
Wilsonia
Halysites
Chonetes
Reuss cras
Leptostrophia
Favosites
?Strophonella
Chatetos (Manitryps)
whiffieldella
Atrypa reticularis
Lepidena rhomboidalis