Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
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"turned rock" "eastern face." "returned from" "here h." "Mananutton" "about 40° thick and tidy" "Bratton yard." "Red slate" "Red sandstone" "3½ yards across with" "dip about 60°. But" "are shown" "? Niagara" "Clinton Hillman" "slated roof" "fronts for it to the road" "sandstone" "white" "little Mananutton." "Held, Orish, and" "Brimmer in shot order." "R. R. presumably on" "shale." "The stopping place of the railroad for Parthenus (there" "is no station here) is ½ mile or more beyond h.h." "On the opposite side of the rail road is a large" "quarry in the New Holland and Beecroft. Collected a" "number of fossils here and along the road opposite Bratton" "Bridge. In the quarry saw a number of fossils in the lime" "stone but all in a compact, heavy bedded, crystalline" "limestone and none could be gotten out. Those collected are" "from the red earth - the deep mud limestone." "Left Bratton Bridge for Clifton Forge. Had to" "wait here 3 hours to go for Crossing too. Came over at 2pm." "A little E.S Clifton Forge a stream cuts across the" "mountain and the Mananutton shows dry cliffs. It looks" "much like the Drills but cut near Cumberland Pa."}