Field Notebook: New Bruswick, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario 1900, 1927
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"I hope you will be in the city next week and finish the Arisay region. Brookes thinks we'll get 32 stands which Mr. Mac Donald with both to rail on. July 21 Saturday en route for Dalh. Left Arisay by stage in time amid at 8 where we arrived at 11. A.M. Here we adjusted the shipping papers for Mr. Mac Donald and had that attested by a Justice of the Peace. I took the 1.15 P.M. train for New glasgow to see Mrs. Strongman. Saw Mrs. Harley, daughter of Dr. Strongman. Found that Dr. and lady have been her two days ago. She said they would be willing to part with the Arisay collection in $250. This is practically Dr. Strongman's life work in geology. She says the collection is completely labeled and that it is the most complete in England. Mrs. Harley is sister of Mrs. because for several years she was the attendant in the New Berlin Institute. Further she was much with her father when he made it. Left New Glasgow to take the