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doc. 116
Quebec, Canada, Sep. 9 - 1919
Tuesday.
A cold, windy and breathless day.
Started across the St. Lawrence and by firstly
along the south side of the river from Print Ledi's
restaurant to see the great cantilever bridge high
across the river. It is about 8 miles north of Quebec at Cafe Rouge.
The railway very shortly after leaving the bridge
on the south side of the river enters a cut at right
angles to the general strike of the Laugm. Sand-
stone. The wide cut line is a long me through
very deep reddish greenish sandstones down from
a lake until near the south end where there is a
line of about 8 feet thick of red shales. One sees
almost no then reddish sandstone and almost no
shale joints even a 1/2 inch thick. The beds range
in thickness up to 75 feet though most of them
appear to be from 10 to 20 feet each. On reaching
by train of into somewhat thinner gneiss.