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Perce, Quebec, August 7, 1929. Wednesday
Cecil Kindle called at 8 A.M. to show me his maps and found he had mapped the coast from Macguireau Point (We is about to take in Perce county.) to about Cape Cove. He has no farther than to map the beaches and does not want out the formations and accordingly cannot determine the structure. He says he has Silurian east of Chandler and over of Cape Cove.
Until I see the finds tomorrow I do not know what he has. All in all I was not much impressed with his knowledge of the geology and as for the stratigraphy he knows, at all, on the basis of fossils his unreliable basis.
I then explained to him what the formations are here about Perce. Explained to him my journal lists of the Richmondian, and then pointed out in the field the various formations. He then took me in hand up the hill overlooking the Grand Coupe and we then walked to the place where we yesterday saw the blue shells before meeting with the Richmondian. In these shells he got extra-erda and so are collected once. They are rare and scattered in the rock, and can be turned up this specious of Ambyx (ammonites) apparently like the one I got on the eastern side of Mt. Joli.
Cecil Kindle traveled to Pied d'Aurore and when he returned said