Field Notebook: Maine, New Jersey, Vermont 1923
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7431 Sunday Sep. 9-1923 Boston left at 12.04 P.M. in Boston, and arrived at 4.15. Put up at my old place, the Lenox Hotel. To morrow morning say I am to meet Prof. Raymond and his car are intend to get to Portsm- ohio Maine. And that I have prepared and de- fined the Mrs Brunswick geologist that I want to make some of its relations in central Maine. A most perfect day, and all Boston was en- joying the fine cool breezes and the clear air after the storms of yesterday. Monday Sep. 16-1923. Boston-Augusta Maine. Did not make connection with Raymond until 10.15 and then started out for Portsmouth, Portland, Brunswick and Augusta where we arrived at 7 P.M. Maine often is a flat plain with much glacial sand, boulders and blue clay. As we came from Brunswick the country rises some but everywhere it is a dissected plain. But out way out into... From Portland to Augusta the rocks appear to be stratified gneiss cut by a coarse granite. All appears to be the old and sort of Pre-Cambrian.