Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910b
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Friday August 19 - 1910. Bonne Bay. Rained all day. Cannot sail for Bays of Islands. Packed all from fruits often collected in six trees. Two large and one small boxes of Cambrie material. Sit added about box from the branches. Three large boxes of Ordovicie material. 2 Together they may weigh 1500 pounds. In the afternoon restudied the northern and western shore of Caddy's Harbor. Our first fruits came from the northern shore near the houses and represents an horizon dear Division 8. Here we got one small Bryozoa, 1 Rafinesquina, 1 siphuncle of an endrecus, gastropods are the common fruits and 2 or 3 Leporidae. These same beds are in the Promontory studied yester- day afternoon and it is possible that the horizon is even higher than 8. Fruits are then not preserved due to in the lower horizons