Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 145
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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.