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(lippinfjf southward at a hi^h an^le. South of the point above mentioned, 

 the shore a^ain honds rapidly westward alon<>; a belt of dark shaly beds, 

 and forms the southern and narrower division of the bay. almost dry at 

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

 flows. From this southwest anjrle of the bay another bed of very hard 

 sand6.1one eap])ed by conglomerate extends along the coast to the north- 

 eastward, and after a break reappears beyond Tun-itf's Hotel, in the 

 clitt'of the Crow's Nest, from which at a lower level it continues for some 

 distance towaril Sandy Bay. 



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SaneA/one &Oanotor,.9rale 

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

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



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



(Length about 5.50 feet.) 

 {A) Conglomerate. (B) Sandstona or quiirtzite. (C) Olive arenaceous shale. 

 (i» Black shales, with some olive bands and thin layers of hard, arenaceous dolo- 

 mite ; remains of sponges in a few layers. (E) Muddy shore : indications in places 

 of soft, dark shale. (F) Hard, gray and olive shales, with bands of dolomite and 

 sandstone. (6r) Pleistocene sand and boulder clay. 



The whole of these beds have southerly and southwest dips, though 

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



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