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mountains all along south shore 500 to 1000 ft.) N6 Southern side low, hills in distance) 3 inches more blue [[sdst?]], horizontal, & N4 high banks of yellow & blue gravel mixed with quartzose pebbles Then 600 yards of blue [[sdst?]] dip West 10°, horizontal, N by W 1, (Bluff br, sandst. Dip NW by N. 10° angle 20°) NNE 1. More blue sandstone Dip 5° W. horizontal.
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Start a little after the Ruskies Pass Saccatalontan about 3.30 A M Pass behind several islands along the N shore which is high with many bluffs of blue & brown sandstone and intermediate banks of gravel containing quartz pebbles, I have not seen a particle of granite yet in the country, Stop for chi on the bank at 10. Tom finds a greenwing ducks nest on the bank with 9 eggs. I keep 3 of them and we have ham and eggs when we camp. Meet an immense quantity of trees
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and a very hard current rendering it dangerous to proceed We leave our bidarra in water over night with the tent above and camp on a very high bank in the open air.
______Saturday June 1, 1867________
Bluff blue sds dip W 5° angle 10° NE by E 5, Bluffs 1/4m. Blue & br sds. in thin layers for about 1/2, dip 10 W angle 15° These bluffs continue for several miles. NE by E5. 1 bed of conglomerate or pudding stone 20 ft wide with brown sdstone on top dip 28° NE angle 45. In layers) N by E 4° [[note inserted]] NB. a little further more say about 100 yards wide [[/note inserted]] NB a little further on a bluff to be looked at when we come from NE 4. More conglomerate surmounted and running into the blue sds. & that in turn with the br. The conglomerate contains red & blue marble, shale, pumice, [[syinite?]] quartz with hornblend, [[epidote?]] and felspar, graphic porphyry
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