Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
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Monday July 11 At sea. As one gets out of the Hunter and past the North Arm of the Bay of Solimio are on a rough topography, nowhere are there wide or long beaches, all are small with steep cliffs back of them. The rocks ore are all green and the mountains rise to at least 400 feet, here and then they are pieces of an ancient trail at elevations of about 25 feet, the same that are seen in the upper end of the Hunter in front of all the streams. These pieces of the ancient trail are made up of the residual material that has come down from the adjacent high lands. The land all ends in sea cliffs like this: A flat peninsula at the sky line does not exist, while the green masses hold fairly true to a fairly uniform level still the sky line is very irregular. The land is indentified by pinks and open on the left side leading landward into narrow canyons. 30' sea cliff 2100 400 over 700 over marked sea cliff at about 400 Entrance area cliff 75' sea cliff Have 3 photos of this place To run over the place is known as Thoral Point. This refers to the lower elevated track = Beverly Head These beaches show more all along in front of Beverly Head north to Chimney Cove. At the next head south, Cape Surjoy, one does