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ed stratification in the walls of the great gully cut by the present stream.
This gully shows the big bowlders on the surface of its bottom and has raised borders. Considerable water comes down here in the summer season.
About a half mile east of the house we encounter the massive greiss forming the shore for a half mile more or less. This is a pink feldspathic rock containing many bands of hornblendeic greiss, the latter being intersected by countless veins of coarse feldspar and quartz, feldspar predominating. Projecting points are rounded and have been smoothed by ice action. Perhaps this can be correlated with the glacially smoothed and striated surface on Provision Point (see p. 36)
22 Sept. Advancing up the fjord the hornblendeic greiss increases in proportion and seems to be the only or predominating rock from 1 1/2 miles.
23 Sept. [illegible] 30.7 8/25 Glacially rounded tops of greiss above Provision Point. About 100 ft. above the sea. Looking ca N.