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August 23, continued
Londinia, Otius or Omomorella, Palaeocyclos, Steph-
telasma, Farrita, and quite a number of other forms.
The bay is clear Clinton.
The hills are seen on the lake shore about four
miles south of Sagatec and they are replete with fossils
here and there of Corals and Lingula some feet thick. It will
be difficult to collect this material. The dip of these strata
is inland at 5 degrees.
About 13/4 miles south of the Catholic Church of Sagatec,
the Boulder creek crosses a small stream flowing into the Lake
Matapedia. Here the dip is also inland or W about 15°.
Sagateck, Saturday August 24-1934
It rained all night and kept it up lightly all today.
We staid at the Hotel (Hotel Sagatec @ $3.00 pr day) all the
morning but in the afternoon one sawk north Toronto River.
The dip does to the E of the road has much loose white
quartzite lying upon it but the rocks are all of the "Cambrian"
= Quebec-Lilly series. One crawls about 3 miles and then E
to the P R, but all is "Cambrian". This range of hills continues
down the east side of Lake Matapedia and to the south.
Alcote has recently described an erasing Ord. series with
volcanics. At some time these formations must have been
related to the Silurian rising here at other angles than