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August 29 continued. Bros on the Bio.
Yesterday in motor way from Bie one saw that the quartz
ridges are continuous for 5 miles to the north of Bio and
for about 23 miles to the east, farther east if present one
can more from Rimouski to near Bio. These quartzite
ridges are again continuous to the north Rivere du Loup
and start all the way to within 20 miles of Levi's when
they die down to far less significance. These quartzite
ridges are all close to the present shore line and form large
long islands out in the Gulf. They are associated with
the green and red slates and the whole are in the lower
part of the Silley-Lanym series, the base of the "Cambro-
Ordovician".
Order of Boletto Zonu Cambrian fossils came from
these localities hinging with Bio and going west to St-Fatim
and St. Limeron. All are very plentiful in the crests of
the Cambro-Ordovician. He also got some on the island
of Orleans near Quebec, and one of the Levi's crests also
furnishes them.
It is curious that these Bio ls engl. furnishes no fossils
with the Ordovician fauna like those in the crests at Levi's.
Does this mean that those deposits were not present or far
closer as Bio? This matter should all be looked into in
the Canadian reports (but very little work written), but more
or if Copin could find a summer collecting on the Lewis
-Silley series from Levi to Cape Rosier.