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July 4-1918 North Branch
tr to foot
Dunbar was the first to see this topographic development
and my part is to fit in the details.
He walked about 1/4 mile north of North Branch station to
the railway bridge over the Cording River and here on the western bank
is an exposure of Windsor shale dipping towards the Long Range moun-
tain at about 35 degrees. To the east and west of here are is Car-
boniferous and maybe are in Windsor.
He then crossed over to the east to the wagon road and then
north to the second brook flowing into North Branch. A French-
Canadian has land here by the name of Peter Muig. He ascends
the brook and in 1/4 mile came up an outcrop of Windsor. I con-
tinued a little further, but Dunbar and Edmonds on the advice
of Muig continued about 1/4 miles farther. They found Windsor
in various outcrops all the way and then the dark grey rocks
cut by granite igneous dikes like that seen yesterday.
From Dunbars notes I take the following. The first out-
crop of the Windsor is a gray-green to red shale dipping 26 S,
250 E. A half mile farther up the brook is another outcrop
dipping 420 S, 23 E. About 1/4 mile farther is a gay sandstone
dipping 230 S, 20 E. A 1/4 mile farther then is a bluff of fine
grained layer folded Windsor sandstone. It is badly broken
up and crumpled by Norse faults. Evidently we are