Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia 1910
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May 4 - 1910 Started out at 7 A.M. for Otterville. Walked 14 miles by 3:45 P.M. Then to New York and Andover. Walked along the standard cannot get to Hugheston. Here is a summit called The Hugestot. Outcrops of Mar- celles at several places. Fossils very scant and good due to cleavage. As Hugestone took to the turn-pike that is close to the western ridge and followed it to Roses Point, there is a fine section where one sees the Hamilton. Rice gives the thickness as 1400 feet and the Marcellus as 875 feet. By following westward along the N.Y. C. & W. R.R. one can see the chemistry. Left on the same road to Cuddeback- ville where we had dinner at the Cudi- bach Inn, a good place to stay at. From here it is less than one mile to the first outcrop of Escopus. To go over the ridge one can go over the old road or the new State Road. Along the latter there is an