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West Albany Pt. July 3 - 1922. Monday.
Left Iresting at 8.30. In the West Albany report of Richardson he has a diatase outcrop to the south of phyllite. Saw the phyllite bit of the diatase saw none in outcrop. Plenty of large and small diatose troubles lay about but these have come from further north in the granitic core of the Green Mts. It looks as if Richardson is utterly unreliable.
of Iresting
Seven miles south at West Albany and here on the east bank of the Draits River again saw the "Iresting Conglomerate". Here the Draits River "limestone" is largely folded but very decidedly handled. This handling brought over the flow and folding structure of the gravel, and as the exposure was a quarry for rip-raping one could follow the crumpling of the conglomerate. The pebbles are not at all common here as they are all small. They are nothing more than larder beds and rolled up into conglomerate
jumbled to pieces. I have five pieces to show this peculiar limestone and three show how the larder layers once broken turn and become pebbles. What is the nature of this Draits River limestone. It is now all the more clear that there