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Tuesday August 16 1932
Wea. WED. JUNE 2, 1909 Ther.
The day is very hot and feet tired or
remained at the sites and worked on my
Vermont papers.
Wednesday August 17-1932
Took to 10 A.M. Bus to the Sminton
Marble quarry.
From the Marble Quarry down to the rim is all
of 100 feet and above the back quarry there is about
the marl bed something like 50 foot more.
Now going past up the farmers old trail one
sees at once a cliff of blue dol about 25' thick
Then a red layer like old ones 8'
A gray manior Drinoceli zone 45'
Cornice area 50'
Another cliff about 50' high. Fifteen feet of this
breathes into slaty appearance, is dark blue and
first the appearance as if it were Porter slate.
Other or hemistatally Edom. It is, driven
a hard magnesian series much marked by
Palaeophycus and other fossils.