Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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187 August 27-1918. Tuesday. Bonne Bay. It was decided last night that we would go after midnight to Middle Arm at about 2 A.M. before any wind would arise. Lemire awoke us out from sleep at 12:30 and we had something to eat. Then we broke camp and at 1:30 we were off and away. However there was some lightning at the time with evidence of a rain. We went once for nearly two hours when it began to rain and to blow from (the southwest) we turned in until about 4:30 when it was decided that we had better return to Bonne Bay where we arrived at 6:30 A.M. We got as far south as Toad River when we turned around. It is the rainy and windy days. At 8:30 we went up a hotel at the home of Mr. Billings where we stay for the day. Awkward notes continued from p.152. "To the east along the strike the same only beds is occupied by a broad rounded valley paralleling the Mts. We climbed Sunday afternoon. The next Mt beyond this valley is composed of rock which as we look over across the valley with the telescope looks jointed in sets and all the exposures show rectangular blocks and faces strongly suggesting bedded rock, and we believe it to be the Portuguese mantles". [As present it is improper to say whether these Mt. chole, spanent the middle or lower ochists of the Hunter Arm.]