Field Notebook: Michigan, New York, Ohio, Ontario
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back to Telpena. On the way in the Thunder Bay Island tug overtook us and later learned that in the morning could go with the tug to Oturgeon Point and from there to the Island. Oct. 6. Sunday Set up at 5.30 A.M. to take the tug but by some mistake of the hotel the call was set one hour too early. The tug steamed directly for the island at 12 A.M. reaching there at 1 P.M. In the afternoon walked around the island which exposed but a few feet of limestone largely made up of Rhoma- ttites and Acervularia. While there was an abundance of fossils yet are are or were by the action of the sea as to make them of little value. Captain Pearson the keeper of T.B. Island is a fine gentleman—