Aug 7. Parsons Pond. Duntan got us near to it as he could think the cliff must be seen that it was made of I Paternoic marble strata vertical. He then went up Middle Brook and everything he saw Paternocian onatles. To the north of the man dipping south- east there is a marked fault letting down a head with a similar dip and further north all the strata of the same mountain stand to end. As we looked about here it is plain that the geology of the Paternoic is very complicated. They can't the Paleogene as the shillum in [illegible] along the Pond. In front of the Paternoic mountains, the land is very low usually under 10 feet and in general does not rise to much on 20 feet until some distance from the lake. All is late Ordovician strata. I was landed at East Brook and here was a small head all made up of small pieces of a finicle green and black shale one of which was almost yellow. Evidently the lake bottom here is made of this shale. Outcrops there are more. I then continued to march it along the north shore but saw no out cliffy ledges until about half way to the red wells. Here I [illegible] dipping about 300 from N. W. S, saw a small ledge but only three pieces of a fine grained laminated sandstone tending to be limy. About 1/4 mile east of the red wells that near drilling park near the land makes a point and here there are good exposures of the strata. The average dip here is 40 to 45 deg S. 70-75 E. but there are local turns in the strata. Evidently there is some masking. The strata dip towards the mountains, the