Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910a
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Tuesday July 19-1910 Forteau A fine sunny day without wind. The flies and mosquitoes thwarted us a good deal today and were it not for our dope we could only have cracked neck. There is no doubt that Trenchfield's dope keeps the flies from sucking, but while the mosquitoes do not like the dope, still they will puncture through to the man. If the flies try to do so they soon die and do not bring the blood. In the morning collected from three to 65-foot one above the sandstone, back of Mrs. Hanick Flynn's house. This is at the top of the hill on the west side of Forteau Bay. Good land in good Alenellus beds but did not get a large good lead. Portigera and Plychoparia are the common forms here. On the slabs collected there are also some small Paturnia or Sphider, they are not the P. labra- dorica. In the afternoon we had one more row us across the head of the bay to investigate the gulch that comes down through the hill. The country is covered with scrub cactus.