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and Harry Gogman's
the one even at Big Stone Gap. Therefore all
the higher Helderbergian beds are here eroded
away or when never deposited.
After supper packed my box and left it
with Mr. Ben tried to be shipped tomorrow,
Oct. 4
from Pinnington Gap.
Oct. 4 - Saturday. Ben Hur to Washington.
Left Ben Hur at 8.40, the train being about 1½
minutes late. Ben Hur to Interment where we
transfer to Atlantic & South D. to Bristol Tenn.
If the train had been on time I would have gone
to Norton and Bluefield and East Radford, the
shorter route. As it is a days broad at Norton one
can't save than the difference in railroad fare,
Va
At Natural Tunnel, the rail road forming
a tunnel excavating by a stream. The rock seems to be
the lime dolomite. The walls at the E. end of the
tunnel are at least 200 feet high and at some time have