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July 4. Stephenville to Port au Port
Looking across from the station at Stephenville to the Long Range, but one sees that they are here again much dissected as north of South Branch. To the south-east of the village some miles there is again here a steep cresting foreig cliff - a fault-line scarph - just like those seen to the south of South Branch and Little River. This must mean that in places the fault line in to the west of Long Range but at others it does not cut the upland masses but somewhere in the Drifson. This explanation also explains why in many places the old topography of the Long Range comes down lower and meets once again the lower levels of the Drifson series.
old topograph Fault Line Scarph
(Jack Cushing)
At Stephenville we found a little boy 13 years old, with a one seater wagon ready to take us to our Friday drive at Port au Port. We are stopping with the Customs Officer Peter Cushing.
At the tip of Indian Head mountain that makes Indian Head on the road to Port au Port is the following experience:
The dip of three sandstone beds 205, 70 E.
This mountain begins about 2 1/2 miles east of Stephenville crossing and is about 3 miles across as the wagon road goes. Rising upon the mountain a short distance after crossing a small brook