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Thedford, July 27-1912 Saturday.
Williams wanted me to show him over the
Hamilton about Thedford-Arlima as he is
to be the guide for the Geological Congress
here next year.
He left Crilington at 6.30 A.M., changed
to the main line at Georgetown and arrived
at Thedford at 3.45 P.M. Stopping at the
Armill House the same hotel Mrs. at
m 1895 when collected material for the
U.S. National Museum.
At Terra Otta which is about ten miles
north of Georgetown the land is much exposed
and full of clay. There is a tile factory here
using a red shale and here and there
a thin green band. This red shale forma-
tion is at least 100 hundred feet thick
and must be more other than the top of
the Richmond series. If or this evidence
is interesting because it seemingly much
correspond with the brick red shales at Hamilton
underneath the so-called Clinton-Oneida