12 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



The writer traveled by auto to northern New Brunswick and Gaspe 

 from Quebec City via Matapedia \ 'alley. The first locality visited 

 was Jacquet River where 2,000 feet or more of Silurian rocks are 

 exposed (fig. 11). Inland about i-A miles Lower Devonian shales 

 afford fair collecting. Thirty miles east of Jacquet River is Dalhousie, 

 home of one of eastern Canada's largest pulp mills. Northeast of the 

 village is Stewarts Cove, along the shores of which are steeply tilted 

 interbedded calcareous shales and lavas. The sedimentary rocks carry 

 a great abundance of fine fossils, chiefly invertebrates. In Devonian 

 days Dalhousie was the site of numerous volcanoes and the scene of 

 intense vulcanism. The writer next visited New Richmond, charm- 

 ing English village of farmer folk. Five miles east of town along 

 the shore is Black Cape, composed of dark Silurian lavas under- 

 lain by f ossiferous sediments, all steeply tilted to the south and 

 southeast. 



Nearly 60 miles northeast of New Richmond is Port Daniel, a 

 fishing village of about 2,000 inhabitants. Here the low hills are 

 formed by bard, resistant Silurian limestone; the valleys and the low 

 shore of the bay are composed of soft Silurian shales and sandstone. 

 Port Daniel is a paradise for the geologist, because nowhere can 

 Silurian fossils be found in greater variety or abundance. 



Northeast of Port Daniel is scenic. Perce surrounded by bold cliffs 

 on the seaward side and steep and rugged hills to landward. Mont 

 Job, apex of the triangular land upon which most of Perce village 

 rests, is formed of steeply folded Devonian sandstones and shales, 

 and the cliffs lining South Cove to Cap Blanc are composed of Ordovi- 

 cian shales and limestones containing a fauna whose nearest relative 

 is to be found in Europe. The cliffs along the south shore of Mai 

 Baie, known as " Les Murailles," are composed of Devonian lime- 

 stone like that of Perce Rock. 



Gaspe Basin, once a delightful tourist haven, is at the mouth of the 

 York River near the head of Gaspe Bay. This village is underlain by 

 the Gaspe sandstone in which a variety of Devonian plants and in- 

 vertebrates occurs. These sandstones extend southeastward along the 

 north shore of Gaspe Bay to Little Gaspe where they overlie Devonian 

 limestones which form the Grande Greve Peninsula or Forillon. Bold 

 cliffs form the northeastern face of the Forillon, but the southwest- 

 erly side is the dip-slope of the strongly inclined limestones. Perched 

 precariously on the sloping face of the Forillon is Grande Greve, 

 quiet, unspoiled, seldom visited fishing village. 



In the course of six weeks of collecting in this richly fossiliferous 

 country many fine specimens were added to the collections of the 

 United States National Museum, among them not a few new to 

 science. 



