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Wea. SAT. JAN. 9, 1909 Ther.
red sandy shales, followed by mine green shales. Then
a hanging series into the Oregontium red shales
of the Valley. Probably most geologists would
say that to have a complete sequence one from
the other, but which of the two formations is
the older is not clear. The general inference
would be that the Levin is the older.
Then climbed up the turnpike that goes east
into Maine, to see the fine fold figured by Rag-
mund in the Bridge Brook to the east of Chapman.
It is a fine closed fold, near critical but seeming
deeper at Leeman, once a lens returned. On
firing with Upper Town of Lewis one should see
and the redoutions boundy green shale of the
Levin.
Than to the stairs north of the Levin Ferry,
where one sees the thin reddish limestone of the
Adamming in some. Otherwise all is green shale.
Are these above the thick bedded Limestone along
the road to Point Lewis. If so than Johnbald
say as we go to the red shales are apparently going
down in the section, making the Gillery older
than the Levin. Certainly they were not above the