Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 11
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Transcription
"Sep 9-1902 Augusta Springs. Rain during the night and most of the day. In the morning walked D-D along the track to Portland and saw the first cement mills. Along the track saw small Lewiston and collected some [illegible] Superdita. A large Portland cement quarry are in the Marlins and Lower Cregmans. Stray to say they use the fruit farms Cregmans and reject the dark blue beds of the upper Marlins. It looks here as if the New Bedford & Newport are also present. The Orestany is also fruitful. the gently or but saw nothing of value. In the afternoon walked to Farrel but did not go far enough to see the Orestany quarry. I was impressed today while at Portland that the farther we get east of the old shore line in Lower North Fork, that there disappear the Oreoth. becomes fruitful, are the beds, where becomes a lewistunes. This distance.