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Saturday, Sep. 16 1922
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Left New Haven at 7 A.M. for my third trip in northern Vermont. Started out with Dr.
Carl O Denton in his Ford car and hope to get to Bellows Falls or even Ludlow before night.
At 10:30 are going thru Springfield, and at 11:45 Northampton. At 2:15 are crossed into Vermont, and the roads changed from hard to gravel ones. Left Brattleboro at 3:15. Have come 118 miles.
Five miles south of Brattleboro we saw the first slate quarry. Looked at it. All the schistose layers are folded with little depressions or elevations that maybe Ostracoda. Have four small pieces. These slates continue to at least 5 miles N. of Brattleboro. They are apparently the same Old slates seen last year at Northfield.
Left for Ludlow at 7 P.M. or 6 P.M. local a standard time. Put of The Okema Tarun.
Came today about 168 miles.
The day has fine, sunny, and not too hot. And dust since it stormed here yesterday.
Keith tells me that those are the Leyden slates of Emerson and regarded as of Silurian age.
Bernardston to the south has Old.? circular stone. Clark found where came from here.