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August 2, 1908 Friday.
Our Head - St Pauls Inlet.
A fine sunny day but I am too tired and rheumatic to make
use of it. Stay in camp and write notes.
Duncan took the boat and at 8:30 started again for St Pauls
Inlet. He returned at 2:30 P.M. with good results. In the afternoon he
visited Stearny Island one mile northwest of Our Head and then the
reefs to the northeast of Our Head known as White Rock Islets. His notes
are as follows:
"With the boat returned to St Pauls Inlet. At a point on the south side
about 1/2 miles from the head of the bay, where a horn descends from a cirque in the
North shore and forms a catarfact near where the Laurentian red-granite-gneiss is
exposed. The plane of schistosity seem to dip steeply almost due south. Pro-
ceding northeast along the south shore we find no exposure for a distance of
about 200 yards. Then a small exposure of dark-gray li, weathering buff
colored which is extremely crushed and is interbedded with some muddy layers
which have been altered to schist. There is then another short unexposed interval
when the li. is exposed again and continues to the prominent point where it
forms a high naked bluff. The eastern part of the li, weathering buff colored on
the surface but in dark-gray or fracture, fine grained and dense. The western
part of the section weather darker dark-gray. The whole thickness of the li. has
been so thoroughly crushed that it appears all loose and shows no bedding planes
except near the eastern margin. Here they appear to dip 70° N. 46° E. The strike
makes an angle of about 35° with the shore where the beds are exposed, for a
distance of about 1/3 mile. This would indicate a thickness of 730 feet of
the li. This abnormal dip to the northeast another local feature.