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Monday May 27-1901
Middlebury to Northumberland.
Left Middlebury at 7 O'm on the ridge road. After a very short drive collected in a number of square lime quarries beside the road. The following is a rough section.
Heavy shale impure li.
Broathing modular. About 20 feet seen.
Solid blue tricolor li with a shale parting near center holding the small rocks collected. Stratum from are Favro-olites most abundant in lower half.
About 40 feet.
Thin bedded impure li. Eye fiddel, no fossils seen. About 20 feet.
Some 5 or more miles farther N.E are 2 small quarries but seemed almost no fossils here.
Arrived at Delinspore by 11.30
Distance traveled 12 miles.