May 22. Waggons &c. left camp at 8 o'c. Waited about an hour & then started on with buckboard. Passed train on the road & reached camping place at foot Pembina Mt. at 1.30. Day warm & mosquitoes very troublesome. Collected some plants by the way, & in the evening went about 3/4 mile W. on the [Boundary] line to see an exposure in a brook bank.

Found Viola cucullata [Marsh Blue Violet] &c. Saw V. pedata [Bird's foot Violet] but not fully out. Found several other flowers new to me. In the thickets at base Pembina Mt., Amelanchier [Saskatoon berry] just blooming, common choke cherry & wild cherry, wild plum & gooseberry just about to bloom. Seems that the dry & warm season is forcing things on very rapidly.

Following the line, near the -[blank] m. flag & several miles before reaching Pembina Mt, pebbles become frequent in soil thrown from badger holes &c. Most appear to be rounded fragments of Cretaceous like Long R. Shale. Many however of L. & H. Metamorph [?] rocks & all small.

Exposure where the line cuts a brook at the foot of Pembina Mt. The bank is very rotten & crumbling & is much covered by debris. Some feet at the top composed of mingled fragments of underlying shale, & boulders of gneiss &c.

The shale resembles that seen at Long R. & called Long R. Shale previously. It contains fragments of small Teleostean [Bony] fishes in great profusion, but all quite small. Seperate[sicl scales, casts of vertebrae &c. The shale is darker than the true Long R. Shale, though weathering light. It also appears to be softer & in all probability represents the lower beds in Pembina R. Sect. of last autumn. The fish remains are exactly similar.

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length. (Selenite found in quantity in beds above referred to though crystals there seen small).

Several large lenticular septarian nodules occur in the section.. The general substance of the nodule nearly black & very hard. Traversed in all directions by veins of white & amber