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none rounded. Usually the limestone piece
are flat and then and those are of a white
limestone in an arenaceous paste. There
is also some shale, but the variety of
material is not such as one expects in a
conglomerate of this kind.
Daleth's idea of fossils in the pebbles being
different than those of the earth cannot
be plain, nor the fact that cryl 2 has
cambrian fossils mixed with ordovician.
As one goes towards St. Joseph and at
the first cut in the intercolonial having rock
on the two sides one sees the shale give
black weathering dustery, about ten feet thick
between a good shale band below and a
? conglomerate above with the Phyllograptus
Tetrapodus fauna.
As one goes on further towards St. Joseph,
the strata give the impression of the rocks
along Champlain strut in Quebec.
From St. Joseph one has a fine view
of the Laurentides and the cut Ordovician
plain with the falls of Montmorenci
deploying it is said 275 feet to the St.