2846 Pierce August 6 Sunday. Arrived this morning at 3.30, for quarters at Philip Le Brutillier. Retired and got up at 7 A.M. After breakfast studied over the hills facing Malbai. In the afternoon visited the Rock, Mt Joli and along the road to the Bonaventure bays, and then down the road to beyond the Light house (Whitehead). In this reconnaissance observation one is impressed with the idea that after Cretaceous time all the Palaeogene strata were elevated and placed in practically their present position. The topography must then have been bold, into which the Bonaventure sea must have then, as the present sea does now, found itself far into the land. At all places the Bonaventure is made up of a coarse conglomerate in which the cement whitish Oligocian limestone pebbles form a conspicuous part. Subsequent to Bonaventure time the country was once more