Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
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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.