Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910b
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"Snow lakes that drain into the Hornbe,\nA valley is making with a rather sharp dip. It is\nframed on each side by high granite moun- tains without an overhanging line.", "The Three Tlesacils form one of the divides." "About ten miles southward of the Tresacils the railway descends rapidly and here we have a fine view (of) a sort of valley with lakes to the west that lie on a much lower level. All around this valley is bound in by mountains.", "The high mountain sides have as usual a thin cover of large craters, but lower, say at about 500 feet above sea level, a great area of small mountains appear mostly of craters with coarse sand. At a still lower level say 600-500 feet the railway runs inside an almost sharply V shaped gorge the lower part of which is cut in granite. In this gorge there are various levels of upgrading and cutting. The train can or cascade down this slope that would make not but three. These appeared to me as