Field Notebook: Quebec 1908
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furnish ad advises one to buy a motorcar Other things can be had at the store. After 5 P.M. walked over to English Head to see the rocks. Saw almost no fossils since forewood and it is plain that I must have to hunt closely in the Ordovician for a good collection. My senior spent last year on the island $180,000. This year but $42,000. He paid in 1875 $161,000 for the entire Island. English Bay Monday June 8. Rain all day, Dark and raining but no wind. After 8 o'clock put on my rubber coat and started for English Head about one mile north of English Bay or as it is called in Dr. Smith's map Bay H. Clair. Here the cliffs may be from 75 to 100 feet high and one mile of A4 of Richardson's section. There are many fossils but almost none that are good enough to determine. By careful search I got a big full mainly of Ostrus