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July 25-1918 Thursday. Day to Bonne Bay.
We leave Middle Arm at 9 A.M. in a fair day. Go near to the south of Eagle Island we see that the sea has cut its top floor about 70 feet above present sea-level. On the top is a thin mantle of gravel. A good deal of the strata of Eagle Island are of a Hood and shale, with plenty sandstone.
We are camped at 4:30 P.M. in the middle of East Arm on the Lower Cambrian strata, a short distance southeast of the main town saw mill. This mill is located on Deer Brook.
The flies are terrible. On rock. Prediction for rain tomorrow.
We walked about a half mile along the shore southeast of the arm and saw the Lower Cambrian. No particular results but two cysts and a wheel of Cleavelandus.
July 26-1918 Friday. East Arm of Bonne Bay.
This, midges and mosquitoes terrible. It is misting and raining. After a miserable breakfast we along the shore towards the mouth of the arm, and past the main town saw mill. The strata of the Lower Cambrian keep of the south-easterly dip to the saw mill and for a ½ mile further they then reverse their dip and dip southerly. The material are shales, and sandy shales with considerable light pink and marlstone quartzites. Near one Cleavelandus (John Strait).
Also considerable siltstones are present. Fossils should be common if there out for this.
The dip from the Deer Creek below camp to Robinsons station is in the average 3:15° E.
Just past the saw mill they are picked up a number of granite specimens in masses that come down the brook. If they do then the Lower Cambrian beds in these granites. It is very possible that the L.C. does not lie on the granite but has overlain them before erosion of the Palagonite. So was at this work that we began our section of 1910 and continued up the north shore towards the head of the