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San Angelo, Jan 9 Sunday.
Arose at Brade at 6 AM and had breakfast at 6:45. At 7:30 we are off to spend today seeing the Permian. From one had a blow out and fell into the procession of about 60 cars and 135 people. When we caught up with the crowd it was in the banks of the Colorado River, where near the top of the little bluff is the top of the Cicer [illegible] during a season of crushed Dectzes and small Remulae. Ontop of it rests the basal Drichita in which I saw no fossils.
The gray Beede runs the expedition and describes the Permian quite nothing out of the days seeing. The Drichita is not red. Saw the top limit of Ballinger. Below Clear Fork is 1 Red Shales with a few grains of a Hurst-White dolomite in thickness of 20 ft. Later fossils scarce, more gone over Cordicrenes about 3 1/2 inches across.
Stopped at the diploid place where Drake collected the nautilus described by Hyatt.
Finally saw the Comiston and Shales (Crustal deposits) and conglomerate west of Bronte.