Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Wednesday August 31-1932 Wea. Fri. July 30, 1909 Ther. Packed two boxes of fossils to have Mr. Carlisle towman of The Tavern to ship by Express roller. He's to send me the receipt. The packing up my baggage and had Mr. Carlisle to telephone to Mr. Smith who runs the Manor House at Highgate to come and get one what he did. At 10.45 A.M. I was off for Highgate with Mr. Smith who went from Brompton and then across through Highgate Centre to Highgate and the Manor. Smith is a Brooklyn real estate man who was for 12 years has been owning this summer house. In the afternoon went down in the gorge and probed up my Chiltern sequence. Found some slipperunas and changed one statement es- pecially the basal member dkt. that I had at 130' and restated at about 80'. Found again my lower fossil layer, drag off the black slate grog are once broken up and I must try to collect some fossils. After the eclipse of the Sun was on at 2:30 it clouded over and over and at its height it rained