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lighthouse, and at several other points on the south shore. 

 On proceeding up Salmon river, north of Anticosti, at 

 about seven miles from the mouth, the high cliff on the 

 right bank is capped by a deposit of drift. 



" Eight miles from the village of English bay (east), a 

 small stream from the top of the cliffs lays bare several 

 feet of blue clay, containing great numbers of very large 

 shells of Mya. The high tide reaches the base of the 

 clay and washes out numbers of specimens, as does the 

 brook adjacent. I was unable to examine the coast-line 

 except for a short distance. The cliffs, for some miles 

 beyond, from forty to seventy feet high, are crowned by 

 drift deposits. Where they slope, the boulders or rounded 

 pebbles from the top get mixed up with the clay below. 

 Fragments of shells are here numerous ; complete 

 specimens are few. 



" The cliff to the west of Ellis or Gamache bay, called, 

 I think, ' Junction cliff,' by Eichardson, is also crowned 

 by a drift deposit. I succeeded in reaching part of the 

 slope where some of the Leda clay from above had lodged. 

 I found it contained many specimens of Saxicava rugosa, 

 and a few of Mya truncata, the latter much smaller than 

 those at Becscia river and eight miles east of English bay. 

 Glaciated or polished flags (chiefly Hudson river lime- 

 stone) are not unusual in the drift of this part of the 

 island. Laurentian boulders were frequently remarked 

 in the river beds, some of considerable size also on the 

 land. There is one imbedded in the soil of a partly- 

 cleared farm near English bay. 



" The island of Anticosti seems to be rising (the old 

 residents on various parts of the coast think the sea is 

 gradually retiring). I was assured by an inhabitant of 

 English bay, that the tops only of two large Laurentian 



