Sep 25-1902 Thursday. To Rome, Ga. At Chicketo the shales are not quite hor- izontal but at Centalnd 3d [illegible] four miles away they stand at 45o or more. The strata are nearly horizontal from the foot of a nace place to [illegible] out. From here they begin to fold very strongly. Arrived at Knoxville at 9.30 and then went by street car to Chilhowee Park 3 miles east of the city. In this park are shown the strata, beds nearly all of shales are vertical. The order of superposition is given but which end is the top [illegible] and down. Yellowish shales with a very surface of considerable thickness, bracts like fern fronds. The above passes rapidly into a limestone of a few feet when once yellow shales come in and then the latter gradually give way to thick beds of limestone in the shale. The crinoids and the sponge occur in this series about its [illegible] thickness. Also tracks byzagra. Not exposed. Red sandy shales and then reddish sandstones, white of fossiliferous limestones. Left Knoxville at 2.10 P.M. I am greatly surprised at the low topography of all this county from End Out to Knoxville and thence south-west to Chattanooga. It is a splendid agricultural land. There are no mountains in the same sense as farther north as the country is gently undulating. Arrived on time at Chattanooga at 5.10 P.M. But here as usual had to wait for a [illegible] train just 18 minutes. Arrive at Rome, Ga at 9 P.M one hour late.