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"20"
[illegible]. In any event this is to the [illegible] Hillgate
slate followed by [illegible] Granite or [illegible] Slate. What
the age of the [illegible] slate is and the two levels
are yet known.
See the samples of the above forms.
There is then a belt of our land of Champlain
sands in which no rocks are shown. The the
land rises into Milton dolomite and further
our Colchester slate of my locality (10), but
a few [illegible] here. Then looked at the little
lentic near loc. (10) and near the famous
town. It is a sort of Birdseye limestone. See
the small samples, the slates around the
lensit are very much crumpled. The fr[illegible]
Colchester is underlain by the [illegible] bedded
and banded sandy and flaggy dark blue
micaceous slate. This design is seen in many
places and it appears that Bricketts Parkers
quay is in this flaggy Colchester.
Then went southwest to a place marked red on
my map and here in the flaggy Colchester are saw