Field Notebook: Quebec 1908
Page 49
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At 5 P.M. we land at the bay Ellis Bay near of Mr. Meunier. I start out at once for the White Cliffs and find it in- teresting collecting. The common fossils are Orthos laurentina, Schuchertella, Rhipido- mella. There are quite a number of other fossils. The lower half of the cliffs is a shale [illegible], the upper half an hard, dense conchoidal fracturing light colored limestone. Out of the latter got a small slab with several crinoid heads. Was surprised to see here Beatrixea undulata and Portarea retusta. In the shale Orthos laurentina is com- mon, rarely a Brinchella and along the beach Platystrophia and Amostraphia. Tomorrow [illegible] tells me n Tom can work on and cut them to pickling these small things. Slept at the end of the day of Mr. Harris.