Then to the railway cut on the Main Central R.R. near Barton, northeast of Waterville. Here seen the Waterville slates (or li. here) to collect trails. Quite a number were seen and gotten. Also got what appears to be delicate Batholiths. Saw nothing else in these fine gneiss mts. As a rule the batholiths and bedding is the same. Stopping with Perkins and Raymond at the Edmund Hotel. Thursday Sep. 13-1953 Waterville, Maine. At 9.00 A.M. ore are off north to see the geology of the county to the slate quarries, at Ormonson. Saw fine good exposure along the west side of the Ken- nebec river until ore came to Korthegan. Here at the falls of the Kennebec is a good exposure of that reddish grey-blue laminated and cross bedded very fine grained quartzite with some slate. The series is sharply folded several times. Strike N. 40 E. Dip steep critical, and much metamorphosed. Raymond says the same kind of strata occur in the Portland area which Capps has called Carbonifurus. Can these strata be the equivalent of the quartz grits beneath the Waterville