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S. Ward Loper
Middletown
Conn. U.S.A.
Please return to above address if found. 

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Record of work done for Chas. D. Walcott, director of U.S. Geo. Survey, on the Cambrian formations in Cape Breton during August and Sept, 1900. 

August 7th.
Arrived at Marion Bridge, 12 miles from Sidney at noon. After dinner got a boy to show me the way to McNeil's brook where the Upper Cambrian beds of Mr. Mathew's Section outcrop. This brook empties into Mira River a mile and a half east of Marion Bridge. 
Found outcropping of Cambrian Shales along the west bank of the stream in cliffs 10 to 25 ft. high. Beddings made up of thin black and grey shales with bands of hard grey and blueish limestone and sandstone. Half a mile or more upstream above the first bridge crossing the the stream above the old Sacomill pond found

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