Field notes, undated (2)
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Cap. Orchard & Brommell landing at g[a]r[da]y's route. The Grignille is driven at water edge w/ large Plas, then dense, and Wistella drift at any rock, this rock is nearly horizontal. At the port of Willis creek shoral The same Grignille rock is exposed, dipping slightly down stream. = nearly horizontal. 660 At Yiche Creek the T roller landing stone used to be but it is now down now. Black Whale 5 1/2 ft peculiar to rounded rock, age unknown. {9 ft indurated arg. massive rock, speckling, breaking up into thin saw layers at several horizons, but chiefly massive. 9 ft of arg. rock, identical with the gravel w/ its weeping rock but weathering to very thin bedded, clayy material. } {9 in. f[ra]g[me]nts from island E. 2 in. clay. 9 in argill. dome edged limeta. about conformable. 11 in clay shale, w/ hygro-mous care. 13 in. D[ye] coloured b. in several layers, very hard but the affected in their laminae which are well acted on or so to make much the thin lags.