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Transcription
"This afternoon I walked westward along
the railway about 1/2 miles and then back
to the hotel by way of the wjm rail.
I was greatly surprised to note along the
wjm road beneath the higher hills west
of Buxby Cove great fallen blocks of the
limestone conglomerate. These had come from
the very top of the mountain where there is
a thickness of at least 160 feet.
The pebbles are of these flat pieces of
limestone give signs up to about one foot in
length. Darn no large blocks. It looks
most like the conglomerate seen near
Dallys Cove.
To the eastward of the conglomerate one
sees several exposures of a white quartzite
but the great amount of the material is slate.
We have here therefore (the 16) where are
the limestone goes 5-14? We did not see
them to the eastward to the mouth of the