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St. John, A.B. May 18. Monday
Bot here at 12 noon paston time,
Dining at the Royal Hotel.
Spend the afternoon collecting grapholites
at the Suspension Bridge. To the creek is
a magnesian mill white limestone standing
almost in end. This of Portugorrie age. Then
a fault gone with the Johannian or Upper
Cambrian strating against the Limestone but
with a less steep dip. The thickness I did
not make out but may be 500 feet or more.
This is a series of light green thin folded
sandstones and sandy shales with but a
single layer holding payments of Linguhella.
Then another fault gone followed by
the Tetrapodites shales, with a thickness of
probably at once than 35-feet. There are also
standing at a high angle and much crumpled
and altered so that the parts appear only
in places. At the very base are some [illegible]
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