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north coast of the Gaspé Peninsula,’ and of Bic ? are chiefly limestones, 
calcareous sandstones, limestone-conglomerates, and calcareous slates; 
the northwestern escarpments of Table-top Mt., where Salia vestita 
and S. glauca, Saxifraga oppositifolia, S. Aizoon and S. aizoides, and 
Primula mistassinica abound, are limestones; the river-cliffs and 
ledges of many streams of eastern Quebec, northern New Brunswick 
and Maine, characterized by Cryptogramma Stelleri, Asplenium viride, 
Woodsia alpina and W. glabella, Carex eburnea, Tofieldia glutinosa, 
Astragalus elegans, Hedysarum boreale, Shepherdia canadensis, 
Primula mistassinica, Pinguicula vulgaris, Erigeron hyssopifolius, 
etc., are chiefly limestones and limy slates (Silurian),* or frequently 
some other rock penetrated by veins of calcite; the famous cliffs at 
Willoughby where the most notable plants occur are of impure lime- 
stone;? and the great cliffs of Smuggler’s Notch, unknown personally 
to the writer, are said by those who are familiar with them to show 
1 “On the south side of the St. Lawrence, in the counties of Gaspé and Rimouski, the 
rocks of the Quebec group are unconformably overlaid by a series of calcareous strata, 
which we have been accustomed to call the Gaspé limestones.” —Logan, Geology of 
Canada, 390 (1863). For further details see Logan, l. c. 390-453; also Ells, Geol. Surv. 
Can., Rep. of Progress for 1880-81 and —82, part D D (1883). 
? “In the vicinity of Bic Harbour there is a great display of the limestone conglomerates 
and the associated calcareous sandstones of groups B [Lower Silurian conglomerate 
limestones], and it is to the resistance which they have offered to the destroying agencies 
that have worn away the other rocks of the coast, that the formation of Bic Harbour is 
due,.... In the limestone conglomerates the masses inclosed are sometimes very large; 
a boulder of dark gray limestone inclosed in one of the bands at Metis was measured 
and computed to weigh twelve tons; another in another part of probably the same band 
measured eleven feet long by six feet broad, and was supposed to weigh upward of twenty- 
five tons."— Richardson, Geol. Surv. Can., Rep. of Progr. for 1858, pp. 149, 150 (1859). 
Mr. H. N. Eaton's microscopical examination of rock-samples collected by the writer 
from two of the Bic headlands showed the limestone and other pebbles and boulders to 
be held together by a calcareous cement. 
3 “ Along the east and west flanks of Table-top Mountain, beds of dark-grey limestone 
are seen which upon careful examination showed no trace of fossils, but which, on account 
of their resemblance to the Levis limestones of the coast, described in former reports, 
and their position in relation to these rocks, are thought to be of the same age [Cambrian]. 
They appear to have been lifted up by the great granite mass which forms the main 
portion of Table-top Mountain, and for some distance from their contact with this mass, 
they show signs of alteration, being more or less changed to a dark-grey marble, The 
country occupied by these rocks is very mountainous. The ridges run east and west, 
seemingly along the general strike of the rocks, and are cut by numerous brooks on both 
sides of the water-shed, distant about six miles from the coast, and between it and the 
Ste. Anne River. 
The mountains have rounded outlines, and are well wooded, although in the vicinity 
of Table-top they rise to a height of three thousand feet above the sea level, the general 
height being about fifteen hundred feet."— Low, Geol. Surv. Can., Rep. for 1882-83- 
84, pt. F. 15 (1884). 
4 See Logan, Geol. of Canada (1863); J. W. Dawson, Acadian Geol, (1878); etc. 
5 See Kennedy, RHODORA, vi. 94, 95 (1904). 
