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Tuesday Sep. 16-1919
A very old night and fog most of the time. The morning is fine with a strong wind from the south and by noon it threatens rain.
South directly south of Bic across the strike of the strata. One first passes over clays and some purplish slates and at the main road one Bic north then are hard gray to white thick bedded quartzites. Then one passes in the next ΒΌ mile country of Bice over more of the same kind of material and finally at the fault all are of the Silurian formations.
Any of these quartzites may have some limestone conglomerate as the material appears to be always sandy. Saw one third about four feet across made up of clean quartz pebbles on top of which were 1 inch across and one broken chunks. State if these came directly from the Lower Cambrian quartz conglomerate.
Then comes in to the south a very thick series of light green and dark green or blue grit or fine sandy shales with thin interbedded laminated orange grained sandstone the cementing material of which is lime. The sandstones become more laminated at and beyond the Creamery. Some of these sandstones are richer in lime than others and they weather into