Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910b
Page 41
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Transcription
"This afternoon I walked westward along the railway about 1/2 miles and then back to the hotel by way of the wjm rail. I was greatly surprised to note along the wjm road beneath the higher hills west of Buxby Cove great fallen blocks of the limestone conglomerate. These had come from the very top of the mountain where there is a thickness of at least 160 feet. The pebbles are of these flat pieces of limestone give signs up to about one foot in length. Darn no large blocks. It looks most like the conglomerate seen near Dallys Cove. To the eastward of the conglomerate one sees several exposures of a white quartzite but the great amount of the material is slate. We have here therefore (the 16) where are the limestone goes 5-14? We did not see them to the eastward to the mouth of the