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"Cambria"]
To Dr Smith, it.
[Next year it turned out to be Dufferin]
At Highgate Falls there is a fine exposure of almost all the strata seen during the first three days. The Blue Lias conglomerate is well shown here in section towards the overhanging cliffs,
of the river side,
at least 100 feet down are pin & twig beds.
Shales come in a thick series of black shales, with an occasional thin dolomite band. At the bridge is another conglomerate, but much higher than the Blue Lias conglomerate farther down stream.
Towards evening saw for the first time an exposure of the brinrock marble about 100 feet in exposed beside the trolley line between Downton and St. Albans. Above it comes in a very long folded dolomite that weather admirably.
See Keil's interpretations, mounted as a loose sheet here.
Probably the entire thickness seen at Highgate Falls exceeds and 1000 feet.
The best explanation of these conglomerates.