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Tuesday August 29-1933
Wea.
SUN. SEPT. 26, 1909
Ther.
Sheets break on here and in the road metal quarries,
and cliffs and should be a good place to get fossils. I
impresed (sic) Mr Howell and he said he would
return to make a collection.
At this place the Highgate is overlain by a
small thin area of Corbin cmpl. (sic). As he made
out they represe (sic) mainly the Corbin cmpl.
Then auted (sic) N, about 1/2 miles and about 1-2
miles E to Park Benjamin. Due to E of road is a
cleft of Highgate slate much crumpled, and in it
close together lie 4 birkhorns ranging in size from
5' to one that is 40' across. In one of them Howell
got some minute trilobites; it is a crystalline
ls and not the usual type of birkerms ls. The
place is marked on my map, there is more Highgate
to west of the road, and probably all in the same forma-
(ion) as far to the west N-S road which justly crosses
the Parker. To west lies Mallett and Dinoralli.
Next auted (sic) N, throug (sic) Benja Plains and then W,
(cast howie to spot this on map fame) to see contact
between Dinoralli and Mallett. Here the latter