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42 Sept. 13th Took early train this morning from Sidney to Leitches Creek, Cross Roads Station. At this Station hired a team to take myself and baggage out 3 miles to Angus Johnson's at Leitches Creek on Forrester's Lake where there are fossils. Mr. Angus Johnson could not keep me but 1/2 a mile farther on found a boarding place with Norman Johnson. After dinner Angus Johnson went with me to the shore of the lake. There were no Cambrian Shales there but hard limestone of the Silurian. As nothing else could be done worked those until Sundown and secured a number of fine specimens. [[end page]] [[start page]] 43 Finding that it was only an hours drive from Norman Johnsons to Mathew's Boisdale Section concluded in the evening to remain with Mr. Johnson and hired him to help me and furnish team to all the points on Mathew's Section. Am to pay him $2.00 per day for himself and team. and $3.-- per week for board. As Mr. Johnson has always lived until recently at Boisdale -- which is only 4 miles distant, he knows the whole country and is familiar with the shale outcrops. He also knows localities not worked by Mr. Mathew. [[ end page]]