Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 76
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"Still far the west of Trappus Cove we came up m 2 and smelled elevate rocks on at 15' with a cliff 20' high back of it. At 40 far above the sea the land is level smelling the second beach. These beaches are in glacial material (to me looks like onoramic). This glacial material continues all the way to Whale Bay and in all this distance there are no Cidnoric outcrops. Also saw Orga arenaria in them. At four half miles east of Whale Bay from the opening to Large Pond) Onoritic rock exposures again occur. It is a decay bedded dove colored, mottled with white, onepression lines. two (granite or limestone) having some silicous footprints of which are hole out all their own good and accessible. These look more like those of 8 that of any other horizon. In the present we think the horizon are &. See the books, our course or one part of whale bay area we came upon another settlement and here again we saw nothing more than glacial (onoramic) material. One of the inhabitants told us that the same kind of material occurred all the way to sea Fontaine Point. We therefrom took the skater path cut through the woods, "The Government Road" and on five miles or more among the mosquitoes and over the stumps on a hot day, Tomahfel thinks honestly the saw entirely in this distance from Bruce Bay. We came out of the woods at Ballen and from here to Table Point we walked over "the barriers" and the coast is all glacial material to about five miles east of the Point. See Tomahfel reports give 9. At Whale Bay the strike is N170E, dip 4 S. Five mile east of Table Point the general strike goes pm