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Lake Huron August 4-1912. Sunday.
On Georgian Bay.
At 7 A.M., we are opposite Cabot Head.
All of the Manitoulin's are flat topped islands
the beds
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in altitude southward and rising slowly
southward in steps to a lower not very
marked.
At 11 A.M. we are approaching the Canadian
north shore. To the south lie the low islands
usually less than 100 feet high with a smooth
They fade out into water level or about upon the high lands of the north
line of vegetation. To the north is the old American
high
coasted round top land with a scant
vegetation among which the conifers are very
conspicuous. The mountains rise to over 1200 feet.
This north land must have been the area of
elevation, elevation at different times. It has
faulted but upwardly flexed. All of the Manitou
lin's strata must have extended across this
elevated land but has since long been washed
away. If the north land has been flexed up-
ward it seems to me that there must be a change
in dip, a steepening of the southward dips.
At high noon we are at Kilmarney and
the narrow strait through which the steamer.