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Little Current, August 9-19/12. Friday.
Stayed here last night to see the fine exposures
along the new railroad building from here
north to the Canadian Pacific Railway.
It rained again during the night and rain
this morning. All concluded not to go out. Or
are talked out of the Campen trip for next year from
Toronto around the lakes to Collingwood.
Talking with Forste about the succession
of Devonians North and elsewhere I learned this:
There is one Chazy here but the '? Chazy' of Bell
is the introductory material to the Lorraine or
rather a formation of Ulrichs that is older than
Lorraine. It does not appear break the succes-
sion in then through the Lorraine into the Black
River and Tarentum into the Collingwood black
shale. This shale joins unbroken into the
Hue-Shales which are Eden- and are marked
with Orthocella ulrichi. The question now
arises is there any Lorraine here and cannot
make anomalous because the faunas are not
worked out. Or true Cataggya erratica occurs
here but a form--possibly a new form--of
the C. healdi group, with these occur