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an glacial day.
Thursday August 4-1910 Table Head.
The wind this morning is in the same direction and as
the Wtena cannot make Table Head today we conclude
to walk to the place. The men took us in the cory to
the extreme western point of Barke's Harbor and from here
we started at 8 am Table Head where we arrived at 7.45 P.M.
I just about done up. In a straight line it is said to be
15 miles but as the path runs it is all of 20 miles.
Where we started to walk at the outer end (western)
of Barke's Harbor one sees a fine contact between 9 and 10.
There is here no mistake in this identification and Logan
is no own in stating: "In Harke's Bay there is firstly a
transverse dislocation, again bringing the lower limestone,
4 to 9 forward to the coast, along which they run for
about twenty-five miles to Table Point" (List of Can. 1863;
297). So we came 9 again east of Trappen Core, beyond
which point no rock is seen other than glacial
ground consisting of large rounded blocks of granite, white
and pinkish fine grained sandstone with blocks of Ordovician
limestones.
East of Trappen Core we counted 6 little rocky beaches up
to 20 feet above the present sea level. All other of about equal
height and are of very recent origin as no vegetation has
yet taken hold upon the loose rocks.