Field Notebook: Ontario 1912
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Montreal July 22-1912 Monday. Arrived at Montreal at 7.45 A.M. and at 9 o'clock I'm on my way to Toronto. Leaving Montreal on the Grand Trunk we follow the Saint Lawrence and then the shore of Lake Ontario. From Montreal west across the Ottawa and west for about 30 to 40 miles we pass over the very flat country seen or shown to the south of Montreal. The land is as flat as a table and must have been under the glacial lake that united Lake Ontario and Champlain. Before we get to Thousand Islands and then all the way to Kingston we pass through a humpy county, the two humps being of Adirondack Granite and the flats spaces in between being deiled in with the former over of the Saint Lawrence. It is the one of Cuth's Frontenac Terrace. From Kingston east we go below the late terraces and everywhere there is evidence of the former high levels of Lake Ontario.