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[[a line runs down the center of this page]] [[underlined]] Aug. 21, 1913 [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] Thurs. [[/underlined]] Left Harlan at 6:45 am. by automobile ($3.00) for Portsmouth. All the region between is rolling Kansan (medium) with loess everywhere visible. (See location of larger cuts.) Arrived at Coon Rapids at 10 A.M. There is a long double cut east of river. Its East part shows a horizontal layer of blue muck and layers of sand - at one point - 10 1/2 hole length from E, - [[Image: lines signifying layers before each of these entries]] }1 ft blue muck }1 ft sand }2 ft blue muck Eastward the sand layer is about 2 1/2 ft thick - on top of muck below about 2 ft sand has mucky layer [[end page]] [[start page]] [[This (right) page is written perpendicular to facing (left) page.]] There is a strong plate of oxidized sand & gravel below laminate muck. At 9 th the muck (laminate) dips a little & then it comes out below it E. The sand tapers off above to 9 1/2, (See next page for west part cut. [[Detailed diagram of horizontal layers with annotated with vertical lines. Annotations are transcribed from left to right, top to bottom. Bottom most line is labeled "RR"]] [[written vertically]] Angle cut turns N - by little angle at 10 1/2 sandy yellow drift { 10 ft. }10 in sand }70 in muck dark bluish gray Gray 2 ft muck 4 ft raw gravel Sand 3 ft 9th 2 ft [[linked by line to [[?]] ]] 7th A little E of 7th the gravel layer runs up 7ft above grade 6th muck-laminate yellow oxide layer 3-6 in { muck & lam [[rising?]] 7ft. Oxidized sand layer below 1 1/2 ft sand & gravel to grade Dark blue drift at 5 pole 4 poles 20 ft yellow drip Blue drips The sand belt runs out at a telegraph post - count W.
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Not sure how to best transcribe the annotated diagram.
I suggest that these (and images in all the projects) be transcribed as well as possible but also inserted as Ole objects in the PDF files so researchers can see what the creators of these documents intended to convey.--thomas