Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Thursday Sep 1 - 1932 Wea. THUR. AUG. 5, 1909 Ther. not appear to be anywhere near 200' thick. The distance from the quarry to the Mallett may be 200 or at most 300 yards. The hill with the quarry and the mill is very narrow and then my own direction here has a gorge even yesterday - say 80'. [illegible] m map. one mile Then walked N. on the St. Armand road to the first E grey road. Then the Millton is no order, What I wanted Milton in my maps further east in the hills, such as can only occur with the [illegible] Missouri. The next place E is so on my map Highgate. It is a little syncline of the banded brown Highgate, alternating of ls and ling & each band are not more than 10', interrupted with a few truly large like ls or an occasional interformational lgy cyl gone up to a foot thick. Too hot to work in pints and [illegible] clay for pockets. The whole coast is decided here and makes it next to impossible to get them. At about one-half mile E of the last place lies a very large firs hem in the Highgate slate. It is noted on maps. On the south going road at the place marked ls. Milton has the repetition train bedded ls and slate and thick bedded clg, intraformational cyl. This tran