April 27-1913, Hagerstown, Sunday. Left at 6 A.M. to take the 6:20 train on the Western Maryland for Smithsburg. It was dark and drizzling when we started and began raining at 8 to keep it of all day. Left over. To the east of Smithsburg we saw the crest of the Blue Ant. ork is Keokuk quartzite. The country between Smithsburg and the great Cement Mills at Security for seven miles is occupied by Cambrian deposits, and the other two miles to Hagerstown by the Beekmantown. In all this distance hardly any fossils are taken seen, and we saw none until we got into the Beekman town. (Towtown) The limestones of the Cambrian are usually banded with layers of light blue limestone and thin zones of impure sandy grits. On weathering the limestone melts away while the sandy bands come out as their redish plates that are more or less crystalline in appearance. In certain zones the banded character vanishes, and one then has thick zones of pure limestone or heavy beds. The Beekmantown is not so regularly banded but the zones of pure limestone and those with impurities are irregular though more approaching the modular