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Measuring across the strike from this place to where we saw the last of the Cow
Head, the distance in 9/10 of a mile and at only 20 degrees that gives a thick-
ness of over 1500 feet for this part of the Cow Head embayment. Richardson
gives the total thickness for this formation as 700 feet which is entirely too small.
At the Narrows, Richardson got Orthoceras, Lingula, Athleta and Le-
kandites in the bi, and pectolite in the shale. We saw two from Lingulas
in the lying shale to the west of the Narrows, and at the latter place first measure
pieces of each shore with pectolites. I wonder if the other things were rather
only of the bi. engl. Certainly they do not recur in the depositional limits.
One a half miles from the head of the inner key Logan reports hears
Redbeds and brownish bi, standing nearly vertical with a thickness of about
826 feet. These are followed by the Laurentian gneiss, and Logan thinks this re-
lations is at faulted area. From this locality to the Cow Head engl, the
distance is about 3 miles and what is in their more towns because there are
no exposures. For more see pages 103-105.
All along the outer shores north of North Point Light (Bonne Bay)
or west to Cow Head where we saw Laurentian borders, there are
all granite-gneisses, and in this unite the granites of the East
Arm of Bonne Bay. In a rough way one may say that the gneisses
are the squeezed red granites of the East Arm area.