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Bathurst, N. B. July 13 - 1929
Coppen had the garage fix the two flats yester-
day and so we did not job started from Friday 1pm until
9 p.m. It was an uninteresting drive to Newcastle
where we put at 2 p.m., on sandy dusty roads. For
Tuesday travel was light. Had a Palmer funnel here.
Every now and then we saw the horizontal muddy
gray-brown heavy bedded SS that would weather into
thin flakes a few inches thick. Holes are practically absent.
All are of muddy coarse and fine sandstone with
irregular grains of coarse crysmic in which the layers
fuses are quartz pebbles. It is all more a less cross bedded
and the angle have long pieces of gravel. It in my layers
an ochre.
From Newcastle to Bathurst it is 45 miles through
the woods. We arriving at 6 p.m., at the Gloucester Hotel.
In places we saw the same Carboniferous SS and at
the sea side as Newcastle.
The river banks at Bathurst opposite the Paper Pulp
Mills on the red Bathurst formation, the basal part of
the Pennsylvanian. It is a brick red not quite so
dark red as our Triassic. Anthracite coal, smother up about
1/3 of the whole with surrounded quartz pebbles up to