[DAWSON] FOSSIL SPONGES AND OTHER ORGANIC REMAINS 95 



dipping- southward at a high angle. South of the ])oiiit above mentioned, 

 the shore again bends rapidly westward along a belt of (hirk shaly beds, 

 and forms the southern and narrower division of the bay, almost drv at 

 low tide, and into the southwest corner of which the Little Metis Eiver 

 flows. From this southwest angle of the bay another bed of very hai-d 

 sandstone capped by conglomerate extends along the coast to the north- 

 eastwai-d, and after a break reappears beyond Turj-itf's Hotel, in the 

 clitf of the Crow's ]S"est, from which at a lower level it continues for some 

 distance toward Sandy Baj-. 



Sketch-map of Little Metis Bay and vicinity, showing locality of Fossil Sponges. (Scale about 

 inches to a mile.) Geographical lines from a map by Dr. Ells. 



two 



Sectional view on the beach north of the church, represented in the sketch-man 

 (Length about 550 feet.) 

 (A) Conglomerate. {B) Sandstone or quartzite. (C) Olive arenaceon^ .)..i. 

 (Z» Black shales with some olive bands and thin layers of hard, a enteou^ ol- 

 mite ; remains of sponges in a few layers. (E) Muddy shore • inàioJiZ , 



of soft, dark s^ale (^ Hard, gray a'nd J^U^^ ^,::^TZ::i^Si 

 sandstone. (G) Pleistocene sand and boulder clay. uoiomite and 



The Whole of these beds have southerly and southwest dips, thouo-h 

 m places they become vertical and contorted. These disturbances, how- 



