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 car and we had a brief talk. Left for  at 7:05 p.m., got dinner in diner. Went to bed early. Reached at 10:40.

, Thursday

Still at Cheyenne, held up on account of floods. Cold and partly cloudy. paper reports 64 as maximum temperature, 45 minimum. Clear part of day. Left at 2 p.m., crossed Trias and Carboniferous at 2:45 and entered granite. Formations very irregular in strike and dip but mostly strike E-W and dip possibly northerly. Passed through long tunnel at 3:30 and 7 minutes later cut red sandstones again. On Laramie plains at 3:45, broad and flat, stratified rocks (Carboniferous?) to north, plain