Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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August 9. Daniels Horton 1/4 mile long and about 500 feet wide. This head of this arm that lies the tiny harbor opening to the north: there are about 2 dozen houses here off the front arm, The sanitary conditions are exceedingly bad. We are using the empty house of an absent fisherman. One dollar per day for the use of it, Billings described a number of species from "from miles north of Portland Creek" which must mean Daniels Horton. All of these species are out of the Corylomite and above the Tattle Head Limestone, We saw no good fossils pick in Tattle Head fords. In any event all of the fossils "from fow mile's north of Portland Creek" are in the Cow Head Carylomite. This place of Daniels Horton is the only unsanitary of any shore can seen. It is a crime to allow this place to prepare cod for the market, The faulting of eastern Newfoundland is of a great char- acter and with the dips to the east. There must be several such faults, thus letting down the land to form lines in a sort of direction and or giving rise to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. This faulting is Port Palegic and partly in Port Cresylic. That is after the plane of the Long Range was made. These faults cut all the strata of the Pal. including the Cant.