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Janesville Ill.
Sunday July 26-91
Spent the morning in writing letters. In the afternoon packed fossils for a time and then engaged a boat ride up the Rock River to the pic-nic grounds. At this place on both sides of the river are quarries in the "lawn buff" and "lawn blue beds" resting upon the St Peter sandstone.
Janesville Ill.
Monday July 27-91
Packed two boxes of fossils and had them forwarded to Minneapolis. Took the