Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
Page 45
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Monday Sep. 15 - 1919 A bright cool morning and jam off for Bic, 170 miles to the east of Lewis. Fare 5.95 = 3½d per mile. At St. Charles Junction we are on the St. Lawrence plain. To the north we can see the Laurentides are uplifted and to the south the scarp of the great fault that breaks the St. Lawrence river. It is probably 2 to 3 miles to the river and 4 to 5 miles to the fault scarp. The grand St. Lawrence scarp stands out splendidly this morning, and from the railway it does not look as if the floor of an elevated rolling plain that it said to be by young. (There about 100' altitude) The Micmac plain is almost as flat as the prairies of Indiana and Illinois. The red lilly is reported a mile or two east of St. Valier, 23 miles south Quebec. The view of the Laurentides is given here and to the east for miles. There is no flat four land in part of the Laurentides opposite Cap St Ignace. The north fault line has gone into the river. As we approach St. Anne, the Ocanacowan on both sides of the railway ridges stick out higher and higher through the Micmac