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2851
New Brunswick
Dalhousie, Sep 1 - Friday.
At 7.30 took the ferry across the bay,
a good three miles, to Miguasha P.O., one
of the points in Baie-Comeau Bay. Going out
a of the bay one sees a low low cliff of
Devonian Hilm with the red Camavertus high
above. The lowest stratum seen here is a
coarse conglomerate followed by series of light
green or blue shales with occasional lenses of
sandstone. About 3/4 mile east of the mouth
in shale-gypsum concretions one finds the
fishes and a thin shale zone between beds of
sandstone is replete with fragments and some
entire Orthoceras. Also found some Ostrodoca
like fish. All in all had unexpected re-
sults.
Made arrangements with Mr. James Butler
and Anthony Splound both of Miguasha
post office P.O. Duché to collect fishes for
one at from 25 to 50 cents each. Both promised
to do so.