General Point Xie. Wednesday July 29-91. Drove over to Dodgeville eight miles to the north. Mr. Marble the hotel keeper has quite a collection of minerals etc. but few Trenton fossils. Visited a few localities in the "lower blue" beds but found very little of interest. A thunderstorm set in at 2 o'clock lasting until 3.30. Returned to Mineral Point at 4.30. After this visited a mine on the outskirts of the village. The crevice pleads down to and through the lower blue beds into the lower buff where a horizontal deposit of lead, zinc and barite.