Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 77
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N.S. to N.10 E., dip 19 to 40 E. The dip is very irregular and maybe reversed in places (undulatory). At the place 5 miles North of Table Point Torch/Al can a few flat gastropods, partly a cephalopod with many short arculi. This is thought to indicate gone g. Mrs House said that in digging a potato cellar for their winter house laid in the marshes they dug through for two 3 clam shells (Oryza arenaria). Probably an old headless husk. I should judge the elevation to be about 50 above the sea. Sperm whale bones and teeth were dug up under their summer house which is about 15 feet above the sea. We are stopping at Thomas House.