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conglomerate
sandstone 

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good way through the sloughs etc
[line] Friday July 19, 1867 [line]
Morning pass a very large village on the W side and about 3 stop at another for grub, the wind is ahead and a pretty hard one; the waves are very high for the river. Buy a duck skin, some fish and a goose or two & push on. See some bidarras on the beach some miles below at an Indian village and think that they may be the Russian barkas coming up but on our arrival find that they are Indian boats. Go ashore for a few minutes and find the bluffs above & below of a hard blue sandstone at an angle of about 10° NW, and below a little way a high conglomerate bluff extending some three miles. Find one specimen of a very pretty [Sphoerium?] on the bank. Buy some fish & [colops?] & push on. Come to another Indian village but cannot land on account of the surf and a canoe comes off and I buy a strip of quill work and the Captain a buckle