South of line. Assembles rise of broken pillar & stands out from the other mountains, with which it is connected by a ridge. Horizontal lines of stratification clearly visible in its front.

Told that trail from Benton to Edmonton is identical with first ìWhoop Up Rdî seen W. of Buttes. The trip can be made with teams in 17 days.

Geol. Sections in banks of 3rd branch of Milk R. show similar beds to those described yesterday. Green-grey sandy clays & well stratified sandstones some layers rather soft. others hard. Beds almost perfectly horizontal. Probably if anything a little lower than yesterdays section in series as beds seen in a lateral valley two or three miles

N & still horizontal resemble yesterdays section more closely by the presence of reddish nodules & are at a higher level.
Fossils found in section on banks of R. in a layer of nodular limestone? [Dawson's ?] or compare ironstone, which weathers red-brown. Shells apparently fresh water paludinas &c some looking identical with those found on the Souris &c.

White limestone boulders still appear in superficial drift.

Gold. assured by Stewart & Campbell both of whom have prospected on this part of country that