Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 55
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the old red grit. The newer boulders are those of the Cambrian sandstones that lie along the old elevatory tracks. No sand accompanies these old tracks excepting on the lower beaches in the valleys at the head of the daps. "Granite is exposed just back of this village and appears 30 feet above the sea. Farther back in the river valley 1/2 miles the granite is exposed in extensive hills attaining to an elevation of initially 75 to 100 feet. It is probable that no Cambrian logh exists in this valley. All of the Cambrian hills seem to face these old granite hills in crestas. how so t, Camday August 15-1910.