"Friday July 15-1910 Forteau, Labrador. A very light wind and a warm morning at Blanc Sallon. The flies and mosquitoes will be bad and we have from 12 to 15 miles ahead of us to Fortean. As we leave Mr. [illegible] house we see one boat starting to meet us at Forteau but it is probable that one will be there before the boat. We had an easy time across the bay north east of Blanc Sallon to L'Ense St Clair but the difficulty began after we left the latter place. At first we followed the same path but finding this too rough on the lead rocks we concluded to follow the telegraph line and path. This at times was also very rough but we finally got to Forteau at 3.30 P.M. As we proceeded towards Fortean the cloud cover of haze dissipated constantly to a low level and finally just before we began to turn into Fortean Bay it came to within 30 feet of the sea. In the back part of the bay to the south of the village it may be 250 feet above the sea. The very heavy bedded sandstone below the 7'6" of thin-bedded sandstone all the way from L'Ense St. Clair to back of Fortean Bay is white coarse grained sandstone almost a pure quartz. There is no feldspar present and the clay is argillite instead of shale. In other words the farther one gets away from the old shore the thinner is this sandstone eroded and the feldspar is absent. These argillite sand- stones are finally 20 to 30 feet thick. Below the argillite sandstone the other beds are the same as