Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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July 28. Bonne Bay Sunday. It rained off and on during the night and this morning there is fog. Mr G.W. Denton and Edwards start off for the day to climb the divide mountain faced from camp. There is still fog at 1 P.M. At 3 P.M. it is clear and they can see a long distance. They returned to camp at 6 P.M. In the afternoon I traveled along the "Government Road" along shore about 2 miles to where I could see the head of Smith farm. Red and green shales (with 5 to 25 feet) with thin gray of coarse sandstone occur in the first mile and than it is sandy shales with thicker gray of sandstone. A little on 2 miles from the head of the farm there is a thick gray clay added coarse sandstone and here it steeply (with about 100 feet) (rises into a cliff with the cliffs for the most part. From this one sees that the Bonne Bay sometime is at the base of the granulated series. The thickness of the series in therefore very great, for about 5000 feet of granulated in turn added to the (footprint) (with about 200 foot thick) (extinct) outcrops to the head of the farm. One mile south of our camp is Hell Cove. There is a large broken escarpment down the mountain side, where the Government Road crosses, the horn may be seen mass of serpentine more or less crushed and brecciated. Of it there two samples. It is this rock that make the rugged and corroded hills between the Polygno and the Table Land to the west. These hills are known as Over Tops. From the Table Land Denton brought several samples of the divinite" and rein material cutting it. These are coming from the top of the Table Land is at an elevation of over 2000 feet (2336 feet according to the Admiralty Chart).