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"Monday August 15th 1910. Bonne Bay.
As one Schooner has not yet arrived and as it threatens
to rain I remained in the house all the morning writing letters
to Rosie, Ellick and Botmel. Our boat came about 11
A.M. and we heard of it by noon. The men came to us on
the afternoon ferry.
We got to the Vertona about 2:30 P.M. and at once started
out to study the section along Deer Brook Way which is the
northern fork of East Arm not far away from the quiet
Reddy Harbor. Just outside of Reddy Harbor and approaching
Deer Brook Bay we went ashore to study the strata. There we
see more or less clearly bedded magnesian li, and dolomite that
are more or less crumbled and weather out irregular small mass
gyosts. Near the top of the section, takes a loose piece, ore
get what looks like Billingsella and so put down small
gasteroids that maybe Ophelita. We may have seen 450
feet of strata and these four lots of fossils come out of the
upper 75 feet. In the lower half of the 450 foot seem much
of the material is still almost a whole but it is still magnesian.
At about 150 feet above that base there are solitary gones (in we
get what appears to be extraorda) and intraformational
conglomerates. The pieces are flat and thin (yet if you did this)
and lie flat on are piled "edgewise." The strike of these beds
is N-S, to N. 10 W., dip 45 to 60.
Near the middle of the 450 foot section there is some
cleft besides that mentioned above. At the top of the section the
beds are considerably disturbed and here the metamorphism.