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Transcription
In general one gets the impression that the sea came
in for a short time, deposited the white, orange,
blue, angular andrite rounded pebbles with
crystals, later followed by oceanic variegated
clays [illegible] deposits by him.
In some places the white sands of the Patux-
at is full of rolled pebbles. These are when
removed from their layers distinguishable from the
Pleistocene pebbles in being almost white quartz
while the latter are stained a yellow.
At Charleston one took the orange sand to
the H.R. and came on the B.C.R.R., a little east
of Frys Hill station. Here of the west of the station
one sees the variegated clays in one place deep
red, maroon and rose but pastward the same
clays are bleached to white or lead white color
while several hundred feet still more westerly the
dame red clay reappears.
After going over the cut it is very apparent that
the bed of the Patuxet are laid down very un-
evenly and the nature of the deposits for are
very unevenly. In one place in the same horizon
there will be a sandy plastic clay which when rather
dried the fusion shows much finer mica.