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"falls flowing in a narrow gorge until about 70
yards before reaching the Bay, the point of leaving the
hills being a gulch cut in an old delta deposit,
the level of which is about 60 feet above sea level.
Several other deposits of similar character and
elevation been seen at Horn's Point and at one
near Brody Point.
" In the above both the definite holds until
about 250 yards from the Bay where appears about 70
foot of sandstones like those of division 16. These appear
to have been cut thru by the divide. Below the sandstone
lee green, red and black shales striking E-W and
dipping 70 S. All have been subjected to metamor-
phism.
" The old base level is a plain case. It appears
that this base level once developed and than the land
was uplifted about 800 feet permitting during a shorter
period of stability the development of the broad flat-
floored valleys. This was followed by a second period
of uplift to a delta level than the present in which
the streams cut down below the present sea level forming
the deep indentations of St. Bart's Bay, Bonne Bay, Bay
of Islands, etc. Glaciation fell and accentuating and
grounding the gorges and valleys. Following glaciation was
a period of subsurgence followed by progressive but
intermittent emergence during which the terraces were
devoloped.