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Saturday Sep. 3-1932
Wea. TUES. AUG. 17, 1909 Ther.
A bright cool morning and I am off to ford over Hum-
fernd Brook.
All is Highgate slate down to defalls where the mine
appears to
descrates make the falls and dip down stream or N.W.
at mt 20°-25°
Farther down stream but on top of the former intruge
shale @
of them and manor dolomite over it intraformational.
dol.
Then the little valley widens out and we see no up-
forms along the stream. I went down the Brook far
enough to see that our own streams fills and Champlain
day slumps. Yet I remember Kiltz telling me there
are large dol. up forms along the stream. They must
be beyond where Jones.
Returned to the Manor house by noon.
Learned nothing new this morning.
In the afternoon tried any luck in the Highgate
forge to see if I could get some fossils in the lower zone
and finally located a limestone we nick tricks that
girdled a men of trilobites in the same abundance
and preservation as in zone 2. Now I cannot get
Reynold to work this out for science.