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at our 1906 camp 2 miles further east. Massive greenish, yellowish sandstones above, quite friable, with hard dark colored stratified concretions and concretionary zones, and darker colored shales below. Found Mactra Mactra and numerous gastropods gastropods above and Veniella humilis Veniella humilis and other fossils below as at the other camp, strata practically horizontal. There is an exposure of several hundred feet of strata in the bluffs and crowning slopes. It nearly cleared during afternoon and became much colder. Reached hotel at 5:30. have had trouble with left eye all day- catarrhal conjunctivitis. The zinc solution I carry appears to have decomposed, so I cannot use it. I got some boric acid and hope that will do the work.