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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