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St. Marys Cliffs, Wednesday June 24
Did not rest the best last night.
Poire called us at 4.30 and at 5 A.M are now out into a very slight breeze for St Marys Cliffs.
There is no saying when we will get there. From Sun River to Otter River it is about 4 miles and from the latter place it is 8 miles more to the cliffs.
St Anne Cliffs are 1 mercuric sands. Poire says the same for St. Marys Cliffs, but there is a swell of promise about one mile to the east of the latter that we are heading for.
At 10.30 we go ashore to see the small ex-
promises about one mile east of St. Marys Cliffs and find the limestones to be a lighter color than those further east with a little more shale part-
ings. Fossils are very scarce except the ends as Tarrad's githlandicus, Halysites catenulatus
and Stimatopora. The horizon is evidently in the
Cwechidium tarandi gave for the valves