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Thursday August 11-1910 Sally Cove.
As the wind is in the wrong direction and the Verena
cannot sail we propose to crawl to Bonne Bay in two days.
At 8 A.M. are landed on the sand spit that separates Cow
Head Martin from Cow Cove.
All the way from Cow Cove Pauls Inlet the land is very low
and is made up of glacial material that has apparently been
washed by the sea, granite boulders prevail.
Pauls Inlet is a very low tidal estuary that runs back to the
foot of the Long Range Mts. Small brooks are said to terminate
in it.
About 1/2 mile west or south of Pauls Inlet we came upon
the first conglomerate (Dir. N) exposures. Here may be seen a very
crumbling limestone mass (1/4 mile long) of much folded thin bedded grey
limestone that looks like Upper Cambrian material. In a few
places lying over the edges of this thin bedded material is lime-
stone conglomerate but none of the pieces are large (usually a few
inches). As this mass was much folded we concluded it was
a foreign block in the conglomerate.
About one mile east of Martin Point once conglomerate is ex-
pounded and from here all the way to Sally Cove (4 miles east or north
of Green Point) in the conglomerate exposures seem three lines
between the thin and thick beds of conglomerate series of their
bedded grey to dark bluish limestone interbedded with shale that
is once a less dark but not bituminous. These limestones are
nearly more than one inch thick while the shale may be an inch
or less or even two inches thick. These thin bedded limestones