Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 51
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Transcription
"The tenaces are well marked about Johnson Core and I photographed them. We have now exhausted the possibilities of our making Cambria collections, Paris told me today that Richardson in 1876 was at his house four miles and one at Guse an Long making collection of fossils. He sent in five heavy cases of fossils. The great majority of his fossils came from near a Point Armon near Paris' house. Logan makes the statement that his Cambrian section was measured at once an Long. If this is so he could not have gotten 143 feet of limestones here as hardly more than 80 feet can be seen! It is some probable that his section was measured at Blaine Latham. - Right mac Olenellus beds but all are small and one large and fine. But some Stenotheca. Otherwise nothing but what we have in abundance. Chelus chromatica seems to always occur in the lower part of the reefs and the shell is often a yellow or red granular limestone. Patersonia labradorica and Rostropon circulara seem to occur throughout. This is certainly true for the latter thank the former is never at home in the upper part of the reef.