"The finding of these [illegible] porite was a great surprise to me as James looking for [illegible] porite. All of the [illegible] slates and the associated quartzite [army DIE] and conglomerates are restricted to within a mile or 1 1/2 d quartzite miles of the St. Lawrence river. The left, rugged cliffs are to the W. of Die'specially conspicuous, standing in [illegible] angular (assuming [illegible] north) parallel to one another. The slate of the [illegible] are once affected by slight cleavage than are the shales of the Londaire. In the afternoon went over about 3 miles to see the quartzite range. In the railroad cut about 2 miles west of Bio the material is heavy bedded fine grained quartzite with thin faulting down to [illegible] [illegible] gors. The dip is dipping off to the N.E. about 45 degrees. After hundred yards over is another cut of the same nature there some of the [illegible] has li. empl. but are the pebbles are once again "precious" things some one of to 4 and even 6 inches. In the next cut about 1/2 mile over the railroad is swinging some to the north and here the quartzite are almost in the bottom of the gorge. The dip in very large probably to depend to the south. When I left the railroad and turned north to the other quartzite ridge, on the north side of the [illegible] pile, the little ledge - the first one of the five to the north of the railway - the dip is