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Saguenay Trip. Monday Aug. 14-1911.
As one steam down the St. Lawrence north of the
Island of Orleans the Ordovician Plain of about 300
feet above the river is plain to be seen far back of
Quebec all the way to beyond St. Ann de Beaupre.
From the boat it looks quite level but in long stretches
between 200 and 300 feet.
Montmorcny
Fall 274 feet.
River St. Lawrence
About 25 feet above river
At the Falls of Montmorency at the top occurs
the thin folded Trenton resting directly on the Laurentian
crystalline. On front of the Falls occurs the down
faulted or called Hudson River Shales. The down
throw to the west must be considerably over 300 feet.
North east of the Falls one seems to see the
fault scarp thus
Granite dome here.
mountains of l'isle
du Beaupre.
Fault.
Famous slope
and plain.
Fault.
River