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Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
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Transcription
"upon a bed of dicotyledon plants which proves that the strata west of this cliff is Otane in age. Farther east along the beach these beds continue for about one mile where apparently there is an unconformity and the Kame beds abut on the Otane. This point will be determined tomorrow.
This morning a right whale or Aporaluk flew quite close to our boat, however I did not see much of the animal. The mist hung upward floated in the air for several minutes. The flukes resemble the waving spindles.
Our cook Pano Brakers says that this morning he found ice on the tip of the sail-bracket. I cannot say that we were more cold than the day before when there was no frost.
The day is a perfect one. At two p.m. there is a beautiful sunset and the varying island along the north by the grand straight plant. We take a photograph for Mr. [illegible] out the Herderston man in Rev. (Dr. S. Boutgarau). He lives in Onemeh and is the minister for the Onemeh district.
He retur at 6 P.M.