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Where road runs up on terrace or bench plain, on S. side 10-15 ft. typical Kansan is exposed. This is the bit of Kansan plain W. of river. It is somewhat higher than terrace [[overwritten]] S [[/overwritten]] E (vU) of the river, on the Iowa side. [[end page]] [[start page]] 19 [[underlined]] Sep. 6- (Tuesday) 1910 [[/underlined]] Left Canton at 6.45 AM for Hudson. Drove N. on Iowa side. Near N. end of line between sec. 5 & 6 on low rounded bluff - (they are all that away up for some distance) there is a cut about 6 ft. Shows yellow loess, nodular above Looking E. [[image - sketch of side-view of bluff, with captions "Loess" and "Kansan"]] near S. end a couple of feet of Kansan exposed - also on slope south. Could see only one loess. [[line]] Similar yellow loess shows a mile E. [[line]] The new C.M. & St. Paul gravel pit is just being stripped. A yellow loessy top-dressing - 2-4 ft.