Truro-Brockfield July 20-1912. Saturday. Start at train this morning at 9.20 for Brockfield of which is about 8 miles south of Truro on the railway To Halifax. At Brockfield we first walked east a little over one mile to quarries in the limestone operated by Ben- jamin. It is taken out for fluey for the iron furnaces at Tremadery which are north of Truro on the southern slopes of the Cotequids. Much gypsum is also exposed here. Fossils are exceedingly scarce here and anything but what is far better at London. We then walked to the old abandoned Iron Mines near Leander Nelson's house. Saw pieces of the limestone in the stream and a few broken products to but nothing of value. We then visited the quarries about 1/2 miles east of Brockfield in the upper Pleasant Valley. Here fossils are plentiful but exceedingly poorly preserved and the brachiopods dwarfed to about half their size at London. There may be 20 feet of limestone exposed here, the lower half of which are calcareous shales full of Finestella and Rhombophoria. Above come in coarse detrititic and porous limestones in which the fossils are hard to see but are seen to be present in burnt pieces. The Dielasma and Semiacula are abundant but very small. Here at...