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Can recommend Mr. P. Le Bon tell us as
(Correspondent)
a place to stop. Mr. Beard says a better and
cheaper place to stop in Mr and Mrs. Lempere
Scott and Jersey people. Mr. Beard also said
he would keep us. Has a daughter May.
In coming along the Murailles this morning
one sees how the Cape Barre beds some swing
around and stand vertical as in Pierce Rock.
Towards the Grand Coupe appear the Mt. Joli beds
and then a fault which dips in the same
Ordovician beds as those the other side of Mt.
Joli.
I do not see more than this one fault. Continuing from that out
Charlie's fault between Cape Adams over to Pierce Rock is
due to turning and dipping at an angle.
Collected a few fossils from the very bed against
which the Ordovician beds rest. Between them lies
a fayer and angular unconformity.
The upturned Pierce rocks were more deeply
along the Murailles
eroded before the Bonaventure formation was
laid upon them than in the case at Pierce Rock.
The Bonaventure conglomerate comes down as Red
Tof to within 20 to 30 feet of the beach.
The Trentonian fauna here is widely different
in that of the U. S. Of brachiopods there are