Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
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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.