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September 23 1924 Tuesday.
Started out west on the road to St Albans
Bay and then south along the Rugg Brook road
to the place that Rapmund and I last year thought
was Gheston. The place is in the land of Martini
Connors, and south of a crossroad into St Albans.
At the corner of the St Albans Bay and Rugg
Brook roads one yesterday saw the Milton with
a little of the St Albans Middle Cambrian slate.
On the west side of the Rugg Road all is Milton
and not Mallett as I have it on last year's map.
On the east side of Martini Connors land there is
more Milton and the highest led is a dolomite
conglomerate. Then Mallett dolomite thins up to 4 1/2
fathoms. The outcrop is a sandy dolomite. There
are other dol. cong. down in the Milton to the west.
On the higher and finer dol. cong. line, the St.
Albans dark shale, one found slate for more than
metres without getting fresh, and then near the Cor-
ers south fence one came upon an exposure that
gilded a number of trilobites. Among them are