August 7-1918, Wednesday Parson Pond. A dark but clearing morning. With middle tide at 9.30 we start with the boat cruise along the north shore as far in as we can get. At 10 we are actually started and at 11.30 a.m., we are at the very head of Parsons Pond at the foot of the mountains and in front of a small river known as Middle Brook. There is another one to the [illegible] South known as South Brook and yet another one about half a mile to the East known as East Brook. As we go up the Pond one nowhere sees any cliffs and the shores are marshy and swampy to the very edge of the water. The shore with its smooth granite boulders are nearly everywhere swampy and lie in the marshy shore. A once unpromising place to work out the gologic sequence is hardly possible. The inner part of the Pond is deep enough at all times for one boat, but the outer two miles one boat can go from middle to deep tide. The present opening has been made artificially dug and is a precarious place to get in and out of for a boat drawing 3 feet more of water. Steam might be done at high tide in calm water. As we near the head of the Pond it becomes plain that all of the mountains flanking it and extending to the south and north are made up of bedded rock. One great precipitous cliff can be seen from the sea or the village of Parson Pond to be of strata dipping to the south- [illegible] East. The southeastern and eastern shore are all of Portlandic age and apparently are of marble. On the southeastern side about 1/2 mile to the south of Middle Brook there is a precipitous cliff and other