159 August 17-1918, Saturday, Port au Choix - Keppel Island. A cold night - dark night. This morning I learn that an end of snow fell at Flavour Cove two days ago. This morning the skies are clear and the wind is light, we therefore prepare to go to Keppel Island and Hantles Bay to the south of Point Pick. At 9.10 are are off. It in 1/2 miles to the return point of Back Arm and 6 miles as the train goes to Point Pick light house. It is another 5 miles to Keppel Island where one or other near the middle part of the north shore. We then crawl to the return northern side and or in around to ready where are started. We did this in 2 hours. At first the rocks are deep redded dolomite with thin groves of laminated dark blue to almost black li. Hardly any fossils are to be seen but occasionally there is a trace of a depressed gastropod. The thickets show traces of our crawling. We learned not tell what the age of the rocks are other than Beckman town on the basis of lithology. As are get to the return northern side we come upon a true for some of laminated bluish - yellowish or whitish - arg. li. completely seen crumbled with the fossils from 6ths and more acorn and raised on the edges. Then like a dark blue, li. about 1/4th thick most Ceratopyen corneus, small Pireceus siphonula, and gastropod opercula. Then higher is another seen-crumbled layer about 15 miles thick and in characters like the older one. Above it are once dark black li. that have traces of many gastropods. A few feet higher, In the same kind of beds occur the orthos - Plectum bristles - thillite some seen on Aug. 16 north of river Port au Choix. We therefore are in lit of the Beck mountains.