Field Notebook: Ontario 1912
Page 97
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Transcription
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 [illegible] 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.