CUSP A TE FORELANDS AT BAY OF Q UINTE I I ^ 



down the bay from the southwest. Waves which travel up the 

 bay from the east would apparently have their maximum effect on 

 the beach at this point. A little farther east there is another 

 minor point, too small to show on the plan. Beyond this toward 

 the large point (a drumlin) shown on the plan, about a mile and 

 a quarter east of Allison's wharf, the shore debris is very much 

 coarser. Both to the west and east the rawness of the shore 

 cliffs and the coarser beach debris show that there is much more 

 active erosion going on there than in the immediate vicinity of the 



Fig. 5. — Foreland about half a mile west of Prinyer Cove, June i, 1903. 



spit. The inference there seems to be that just at this locality 

 we have a region of relatively quiet water and less activity, 

 where material eroded by the waves acting alternately at different 

 intervals tends to accumulate. 



4. Prinyer Cove spit. — About a mile west of Prinyer Cove there 

 is a slight salient on the shore line which is tipped by a small V 

 terrace and rimming bars inclosing a triangular lagoon. The 

 axis of the spit lies nearly at right angles to the trend of the 

 shore line. The spit is 275 feet in length and measures about 

 300 feet across the base. The sides are nearly symmetrical, and 

 the inclosing bars are built of gravel. The inclosed lagoon is in 

 part filled up with rank marsh vegetation ; near the edges are 

 some large trees. The apex of the spit shows the lines of succes- 

 sive additions on alternate sides. Inside the present beach only 

 one of the earlier beaches is well preserved. This has been in part 



