Niagara Falls, Thursday Aug 21 - 1913. Left Simsbury at 9.30 A.M. after shipping from trces [illegible] points. Arrived at Suspension Bridge at 11. Took the Cataract Trolley line to end just where the large section along the N.Y.C.R.R. begins. He first studied the contact between the Lockport and Rochester. At first one laid it down the heavy bedded crystalline escorite somewhat magnesian limestone overlay the cement beds. At the base this li., has but the smallest shale inclusions, there is no bottle argilite, and all in all there is no convincing evidence that there is - break here. Beneath this layer from place to place there is hardened shale or even an interformational conglomerate from 0 to 5 inches. In other places there is not more than a thin shale footing followed below by the 3 1/2 feet bed of pictured rocks = mud churned sea bottoms. Clearly this thin irregular layer goes with the cement series and cut, directly with the Lockport. Then follow below a more regularly bedded cement grade about 3 feet thick, succeeded by another churned layer, about 3 feet