Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
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.