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August 13-1920 Friday.
A dark-foggy morning and before I got to New-
York it came hard and big. After seeing something of
the fireworks we went to East Point to see the
Penjator Cliffs. Fine clean refrains along the
sea front. Here are the jetties and boulders are much
drawn out, usually thicker in the center with the abs
drawn out and often into sharp edges. The boulders
often have lengths of 3 feet and 1 foot thick. Done on
layer. The jetties and boulders are as a rule for
white quartzite and a milky white other stone
probably also a quartzite. The cement is a coarse
greenish sandstone. At times there is much greenish
sandy shale and it draws out most. All of the boul-
ders have some kind of slicken siding and where
there is much sand cement the whole looks in the
appearance of a schist. There are also dark or
blue-black fine sandy shale pieces. Saw no granite
or schist. Second time I thought I saw Perlitus
and near edges of martialite brochi forms. Ray-
mond found two boulders with lignites, and these