Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 107
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boulder of divite, the result of the inoslation of the divite aftering scraped clean by glaciers, me could imagine himself in the Texas prairies. This level plain extends as far I can see. I sat on this plain isand for about 1 1/2 miles and found it extremely level. A crayon, run it out in the bouldus, can't be divine over this without meeting any distortion. No trees once seen on this plain but patches of grass, rock patch being a fox. On this upland plain are higher elevations, residuals on the old base level. Looking in all directions the level of the hill tips is the same level of this plain. This plan truncates all the rock systems, Pottsgrie, Cambria, Ordovicia, and Jgreus, having all kinds of structure, folds, faults, steeply dipping, oriental and massive orelly sandstones, shale, limestones, conglomerate, divites, and granites are rise to the level of this plain. Over the 20a and Bay are lower elevations. " About 800 or more feet below the old plain level is a system of broad flat floored valleys in some cases one half mile wide. This vally is cleared with angular gravel the result of breaking down by insolation of talus rocks and gravities. These valleys have lakes and the gradients of the brooks is by no means high. I descended the mountain from the plain at another point than where descended and then followed a brook to the Smith Gome about a 1 1/2 miles from Bonne Bay. After leaving the level of the valleys above described the brook became a river