Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910b
Page 107
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"follows. On the level of the lakes there are 2 or more Elevated sand plains (see trip, gray cards), and these seem to me to be correlatable with those upper shelves in the gorge. Whether all these levels can be correlated as one with the outer elevated beaches. When we get down to Hardy we run along on a level probably 10-15 feet above the level of Grand Lake which is 250 feet above the sea. At Grand Lake we see 3 Elevated plains. The first is probably not over 5 feet above Grand Lake, the second 15 feet above the lake and the third about 50 to 60 feet. The second and third can decided on. The railway then rises on the third level and goes some distance before it descends to the level of Deer Lake. The former level I estimate to be 50-60 feet above Grand Lake or about