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July 18 Wednesday Arisaig.
Rained all night and continues on
this morning. Staid in the house wrote
letter and read all the morning. Note
to Rothburn, Drilliard and Mrs. Otmy-
onan
Rained all day
July 19 Thursday Arisaig.
Collected in the morning along the
shore east in Division C and B'.
Division B is a soft shaly gray white B'
in a harder shaly gray but more than
hundreds of limestone.
Collected in the afternoon from the red
stratum N.E. to Mr. Adams house in
division C.
The fossils gathered in the morning from
the lower limestone probably in Div. C
instead of Div. B'.
I have now seen all of the gray
limestone from B to D. Palaeontologically
it is one series and forms part of a
district basin from that of the United
States. Approximately the Linnay conforms
with the Clinton and Niagara. If any
portion correlates with the Medina it