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Tuesday July 19, 1932
Wea. SAT. MAY 1, 1909 Ther.
About ½ mile south of Parkers Cyl and a few hundred feet east of the road is a little bed with the same Ruff Brook type, just to the south and a little east on higher rise of what once was the St. Albans shale. The bed has a huge lens 100' long, in the further east are two other lenses, are both, or maybe with the St. Albans sh. Lee loc. would probably place them 266'. Those places are shortly to the east of the drill at the top of the Zrout C.
We then moved to see the double exposures of the Swanton cyl about one mile s.s.w. of Georgia Center. The main mass of the ls gives one of the lenses, some of the White Ridgey kind and other are of the light flace type. There is also considerable flat pettlo forms of the Mississquoi kind. In other words it is of the regulation Shells Corner cyl.
The two areas are separated probably 1000', and in between is a thick redded gray drl, and at the east end is a little black slate that looks like Highgate. Schistosity is everywhere marked so the appearance is that the Slate