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Transcription
In the afternoon walked through Dennis Gap
and beginning on the S, in the creek the following section
was traversed.
[illegible]
Over no one knew
Shasta outcrops Romney Shales
Origenang SS. Orange and red with
attics and smoother limy belors
40 feet
Passing on that head into the
Acrecraft. Slight concave in foot
at a distance above are now more
belows
140 feet
All sandy grey limestone.
Thinner bedded dark blue li
with enamel chert
Apparently what I called Owen Shalefoot
of Currie to us
52 feet seen
Orange and impure sandstone
with some slate and thin
seams of impure li.
100 feet
35 feet not seen,
Thin bedded greyish limestone
like Manlius or Brattleboro
but more impure,
4 feet seen
36 feet not seen
Thin redder rather SS 5 feet
35 feet not seen
This highly, mottled dark
blue li. 40 feet
150 to wagon road bridge
These fossils are like those collected at Currie too.
Own another a few feet there is like specimen
Lagelostera, Edmontina, Meristella,
Red rim on corner very gently
This 350 steps along the wagon road
to where the white Massanuttus
stands and. In a straight line
it is probably not more than
900 feet.