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"natural apparently a dinite. Then far are
Carboniferous sandstone ledges along the main road. At Stephenville one can tell there
is a one foot bed of orel. On the eastern side of Cormaine Brook there is a cliff
about so feet high of white gypsum.
Beyond this point it was too dark to
crawl out the rocks.
On the west side of Comaine Brook
there is a fine exhibition of elevated
sea haches the material of which is in
all probability diron material. The first
one we judged to be about 8 feet above
sea level. The next one was 6 feet higher,
thethird atmost 12 feet above the last
followed by the fourth 6 feet higher. The
fifth one was atmost 30 feet above the