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"Quebec, Wednesday Sep. 10-1919
Rains are night and all the morning. In the
afternoon it quit and I returned to Lewis.
On the first N-S street [the main street] of the city a
thin limestone conglomerate layer 30 feet thick. About 7/10 of the
mass is made of subrounded mostly-white limestone inside
a light blue or dirty clined, the interstices filled with either
grey quartz or sandy limestone or milk-a-sand. The limestone are
granularly fine embedded like that of the Lorraine. Other
layers filled with a sandy yellow or other distinct
are shot through with holes reminding of birdseye li, and
some are granular. Rarely is there a thick milk finish;
more loose tumbledite head suggesting Upper Cambria,
and in another a gneiss-like a cyrtocrinus like cyclopora.
One also sees pieces of a sandy shale or many blocks
or conglomerate up to 18" long
of the Lorraine sandstones. No pre-Cambrian crystalline
are present, but some layers, the thick ones; are the pieces are
small, under four inches, and in other layers the blocks
are from 6 to 54 inches long by 1 to 8 or 10 inches thick. Some
of this material was transported far and may all be
the country of sea cliffs. At the bottom and top are