which now seem to me like nothing more than the Mississippian Cambrian and Ordov- cian strata nearer the shore [therefore different] physically] and in the center of elevation, are greatly metamorphosed. The real shore line for these Cambrian and Ordovician strata lies in the region of the eastern Piedmont for here are seen surface flms of lara - the oreta- chert like. Left at 5:38 P.M. for Lunay. First over the B. & O. to Shenandoah Junction and then via the Norfolk and Western. Arrived an hour late at 9:15. Stopping at Hotel Lawrence. As one cross the Valley one are in the limestone and the land of abundance. Nothing can be seen of Massanutten Mt. for an hour and then the north end looms of sharply and in the evening lights a dark flue. As one go on it is seen that the Mt. is made of 1 several ridges. It is a remark- able case of persistence of rocks - an outline - in a limestone valley due to a deep say in the valley syn- cline and the final prevention of removal is due to the Massanutten sandstone.