Field Notebook: Florida, New York, Quebec. 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942
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Monday July 12 - 1937 Left Chateau Cap Chat at 8:45 in the last day of the trip. The sun is out in full glory, but the dirt roads are when hard and rag dusty. Five miles north of Chat one got a fine view of the Chicchochets and pretty Table Top Mt. Later one had other glimpses of the range, being the headland at St. Joachim de Tourelle showed a series of marine terraces jutting out up to 400'. The lower one at about 60' was seen again and again as we traveled northward. Farther N, to Riviere de la Maste one see much Quebec, mostly the lower Laurentian divisions. At the Puroeau Artoun the strike of the Quebec goes out to sea with a more northerly angle by from 15-30 degrees from the land. One saw this condition run and run again farther north. Farther north the grad rises to about 2000' at one the sea