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Tuesday July 19, 1932
Wea.
TUES. APRIL 27, 1909
Ther.
Then entered some one mile to the Conroy (Mid. C.) place, here we saw at not far one of the same cyl. as before intertangled with oil.
Just what the age of these beds is not certain, but in the present are best regarded as L. C.
Fenton east is a cyl. cyl. gone about 10'-15' thick, with pieces up to 2' across, a sandy cyl. cyl. Over it follows at over 100' of Adams shale near the top of which come the brown (Mid. C.) fossils.
The distance from the basal cyl. to the base of the Adams sh. is about 150 fath. or we give about 100'.
The depth here appears to be about 150'.
When the road comes Ruff Brook immedi- ately on the east bank can be seen the same sandy cyl. cyl as at the Conroy place, Here it is at the base of the St. Albans clay sh., do the Howells (Mid. Perm) cyl.? If so it cannot be correlated with the cyls of Adams Pasture at the top of the St. Albans sh. This lower cyl. has pieces of the coarse sandy cyl. of the di. C, near me piece about 20