Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 87
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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