Field Notebook: Quebec 1908
Page 76
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and we got by, hurts over without guns and powder of with lammers and effect. my boys. We saw no exposures until we got about 2 miles east of Jupiter River where a hill of some size came falling over the roof. Here is a small exposure of light green or gray limestone in thin beds, 1-3 inches. These are followed for another half mile when all is covered again by the down slope of the glacial blue clay. In this clay occur a number of feebly pods or necks fossils that one can readily mistake them for recent shells when it not for the fact that the species are all different from those of the present beach. (Going D7) Going D9 has not many fossils but those collected are good and very inter- esting. The fossil I got was a fine and large shell that I mistake for [illegible] nematites. As I collected once it soon