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"Friday July 1st 1910
Crisaig.
Left Orndale at 7.30 A.M. with Mr. Patterson's wagon
for Baileys Brook to see the Lileric there. It rained a
good deal during the night and all is wet this morning.
The Lileric here makes a very hummocky and high hill
terminated on the north by Vameys Brook. On the southern side
of the line at about the centre of its length we saw the brick
red sandy shales said to be of Devonian age. They stood nearly on
edge with a slight dip to the south east. To the north of this
outcrop for nearly a half mile we saw considerable loose
material of the Lileric often split into forms. These blocks while
loose are not far removed out of place and represent the main
Paleozoic horizon of the Crisaig section. Higher up in the series
Chonetes novacostatus had a breadth of nearly an inch, and still
higher we saw the crassely plicat large spirifens. Nothing of
the distant Lileric red hill were seen here.
Going across the Lileric ridge to the north and down to
Vameys Brook leaves across the Lileric limestone in place and
here the dip was again nearly vertical but distinctly slanting to the
North. The place is a little more south than the F on Vameys Brook
of Fletcher's map. There must be many hundred feet of Lileric
still above the outcrop before coming to the Devonian. At the
junction of Vameys Brook limestone road and the main Baileys
Brook - Cardrona road Devonian again crops out, nearly vertical
until the dip slightly to the north."