Wednesday August 31-1910 Topsail Left St Johns this morning at 8.45 and got off at Topsail. Stopping at J. J. Butler, Topsail. Spent the afternoon beneath Topsail Head just northeast of the village looking for the Lower Cambrian Limestone. The greenish shale that overthrusts purple is exposed along the sea shore and according to Balett contains fragments rarely of trilobites in- dicating Middle Cambrian. Climbing up the hill but a short distance one sees the remains of an old lime kiln and while limestone lies about none of it has recognizable fossils. It is all altered in a peculiar way. Balett says a fault occurs dere. This is undoubtedly so for in the fault plane there has formed a thick mass of vein quartz and this deposition has altered the limestone and has cemented the broken parts with pieces of the ancient quartz mass by the vein quartz. One sees some evidence of the fossils but on breaking the lime- stone none show. Balett notes 13 feet but how he got these feet to know. I saw but little of the limestone in place and this area directly in contact with the fault plane [see Friday Sep. 2-1910].