Field Notebook: Ontario 1911, 1912
Page 104
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Saguenay Tuesday Aug. 15-1911. The land is low about Chicouteme, not as a rule over 200 foot high and flat topped. Eastward the land gets higher. About 7 miles east on the north shore 5 fine terraces may be seen going to about 300 feet or more. As one looks back to Chicoutemi the old peneplain is once seen as a plateau. Here and there upon it are high but also flat topped masses. Into the bay the plain is also once seen but in higher here. Far to the north of the Saguenay one sees high granitic mountain standing some thousands of feet above the rest of the land. All of the crystalline are very much jointed. To be seen everywhere and especially fine at Cape Trinity, 1700 foot high. Some joints are targeted but the majority are vertical. This appears to be the highest part of the Saguenay. The waters of the Saguenay is dark and is swamp water. At the head of the river one sees slabs, and porphyries.