5.30 A.M. Camp 69.m. E. B. 27.03
T. 37" calm. clear
Noon. By swamp valley 82. m. E. B. 27.00 S.S.W. light. clear.
T. 76"
8 P.M. Camp on first branch of Souris B. 2110 S. clear
T. 60"
Wonderful weather for the season. Warm & summer like.

Sept 24. Started at usual time & travelled on. Lunched where road nears Souris R. Day very fine & warm. After dark in the evening a light seen moving away to the S. & apprehensions of Indians being entertained the guard was doubled, horses hobbled as well as tied up, & men ordered to have their rifles in readyness. Many ducks & geese in pools in the stream bed.

Geol. The Coteau proper along the Northern edge of which we are now travelling is composed in great part of drift. A hill of which borders the higher land to the S & West & is superposed here on lignite Tertiary rocks just as Hector shows it in one of his Sections resting on Cretaceous. The coteau edge therefore not necessarally the border of any particular formation, but forms a circle round a central swell in which both Tertiary & Cretaceous beds are enfolded.