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Collected most of the day in the several small
cuts along the railway for 4 miles south west of the
cut
landing platform. In the first in the turn of the
just beyond the landing platform.
road and beneath the wagon trail are seen
greenish shales that were dumped just beyond in
the hollow. These shales are filled with Metarhiz
ides manuelensis. A few hundred feet further
are seen the igneous rocks in which are embedded
Lower Cambrian limestone pieces as described by
Boylett in the paper of 1900. His description of these
cuts is inaccurate.
The cuts with the decomposed shale and
limestone described by Boylett is now not once
approached and one has no good opportunity
to collect the good fossils he mentions. Only
some specimens but not a good lot.
In the next cut a limestone is said to rest
below
on the conglomerate. This is the Stylolites limestone.
The basal conglomerate is once shown but
a true trace of the limestone.
Lower
Late in the afternoon visited the Cambrian at
the base of Topsail Head to see if I could
find fossils in the limestone. Found loose