Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 7
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"wild gap. Here are good exposures of the Hartenstein, Massanutten and Romney. The road then remains in the latter to Augusta Springs. Sep 8 Augusta Springs. This is the place called in the Hantestm file? Pond Gap. Started through the gap on the rope road. One sees plenty of Ouslanry erractics and ore are along the road along the western side. About 1/2 way up to the right are the abandoned iron mines of Esteline.. Have some scrapers. Neither here or anywhere along the road did I see evidence of field. Certainly if there is limestone in here and 200 a mine put thick one should find erractics of it, but there is nothing but Ouslanry and Massanutten sand- stone. Above the Esteline ore mines there is the Romney shale along the road for some distance. Have a fine forest. Oatm