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Then passed through Parton.
One mile south of Guilford occur sandy slate in
strips beds of quartzite
At Attot in the river in the first exposure can be
seen. It is very light blue, very fine grained and much con-
colided quartzite. As a rule in thick beds. They continue
upstream but for far I do not know. Below the bridge is
a gradual mine but here the strata occur in several
beds. The thickness is at least some hundreds of feet
thick. So far we have seen nothing like this series.
Under the North Attot bridge occur dark green
sandy slates much altered. Strike N. 45 E.
At Mmom occur large slate quarries in a very
dark blue slate that has some dark blue coarse sand-
stone. The layers of this sandstone has torn of shale
payments that are now highly polished due to the friction
of movement. These slates are very worn and not crinkled
and folded as is or common in slate quarries, just here
that is also an immense amount of refuse. We all
looked for 1/2 drums for miles without results. The
slate are considerably traversed by quartz veins.
Stopping at the Thomas Hotel (private house) at Mmom.