Field Notebook: Nova Scotia, Quebec, Vermont 1924, 1928, 1932, 1933
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Thursday, August 31-1933 Wea. SUN. OCT. 24, 1909 Ther. Beneath the clif in Highgate slate on a cliff facing N.E. It also dips 20° E. Farther W., to north of road is an acre or two of tirkhems, large and small. They lie in the Highgate slate, but beneath the clif. Merions mentioned. The other tirkhern lies hidden at me the clif. Farther over is a swamp with small stream in Champlain clay. This hollow appears to cut out into Highgate slate. Farther over is the rising land with Paulus slate and to S., of road after we resume the Chitt River is only, with at least two Tirkherns. Both sides of road are on the Elmaldon farm. Made another traverse north of Highgate road about 1/4 mile N.W. seemed dense into the hollow if the stream that goes into Humpfnd Brook. All is Highgate slate without dolomite or other hard gnes. The same slate is seen in Brooks mouth in Humpfnd brook.