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N.S. to N.10 E., dip 19 to 40 E. The dip is very irregular
and maybe reversed in places (undulatory).
At the place 5 miles North of Table Point Torch/Al can
a few flat gastropods, partly a cephalopod with many short
arculi. This is thought to indicate gone g.
Mrs House said that in digging a potato cellar for
their winter house laid in the marshes they dug through for
two 3 clam shells (Oryza arenaria). Probably an old
headless husk. I should judge the elevation to be
about 50 above the sea.
Sperm whale bones and teeth
were dug up under their summer house which is about
15 feet above the sea.
We are stopping at Thomas House.