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These vertical bypns
reel extend at times so far they look verticall.
Stand as they grew but in
many cases they are slow
hollowed up and are tumbled
down. Single isolated heads
and a few supported heads
in small beds
are common. They're also associated with the ups.
There are many joints in these limestone but are exceedingly hard to
give Grinnell's reparts (columns are common). Dunbar found one
fine ejected like Hicropites.
Dunbars note are as follows:- "Following around Black Duck Bay
to Mist Point; the point and beyond consists of about 70 feet of thinned
? Richmondian Sandstone. Its moderately fine grained and very small
grain tumbled, dipping about 30°. Long ledges running out into the water as
far northeast as I can see good, in at least mile, at that point a little
village with shutting off my view."
extend 200 yards north & west.
Dips 30° about 150 ft.
Top of section not seen.
stills out parallel with peninsula.
Mist Point
Dunbar has a much more
detailed sketch and more ac-
curate to nature.
Richmondian Sandstone.
Thicknes seems 75
feet but the thickness
here may be 200 feet.
Later we see that these
rocks of Mist Point are
the basal Devonian
Series.
Black Duck Bay
Area point
from mist.
Road
600 yards
1300 feet ->
Eastern edge cliffs about 100 feet high