Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 49
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"Wednesday July 20-1910. L'Cause au Loup. "A fine warm day and a slight breeze. "Walked from Fortran to L'Cause au Loup along the shore a distance of about 8 or 9 miles. "On the east side of Fortran Bay we again encounter the red sandstones at the top of which are seen a little of the white sandstone, initially less than 7 feet. None was seen yesterday in the gulch and today we first began to see it about 1/2 miles out from the head of the bay. Then for the red sandstones which free of feldspar are softer here and evidently have more made in them. "When we got to Mr. Davis' house north west of Point Armon lighthouse we came upon the coral reefs that are here more lovely bedded and less a reef than on the east side of Fortran Bay. Then for the limestone is not often red but usually a grey to light green nodular limestone. We measured at least 80 feet of it there. The Olenellus came in about 65 feet from the bottom. Just east of Davis' house around the bay on the way to Point Armon the reef limestone reaches the sea while Island 1/2 mile the louse is fully 40 feet above the bay. Strays at this place that Richardson got some of his fossils. "Point Armon projects further into the Straits of Belle Isle than any of the other headlands hereabouts and it is because of this that the light house is placed here and also the reason why the reef limestones dip into the sea to the west of the light. "To the east of the light house and the Marconi