Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910a
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Thursday July 14-1910. Blane Darin A cold damp dark day. bring lift. he started in to collect Donne Anchorage gathering up the hill to the northwest of the bay and then had the men take the material to the boat. be then walked about 2 miles along the irland telegraph line restored to Bradne Bay. Our route was along a trail through a hollow valley over the lower old elevated beaches. Approaching the sea at Bradne Bay we encountered low sand dunes nearly flanked on. The seaward side was covered by a coarse grass seen along sea beaches. As we got to the shore of Bradne Bay we again saw the lower red sandstones and cam- brian flaves but no contact with the granite was seen. Torrents fell over in farther up the bay and he reported a sand plain between the Cambic and the Laurentian 200 ft in width. Farther north rise the mountains that one sees rising above the Cambic.