CUSP A TE FORELANDS AT BAY OF Q UINTE I 2 I 



different storms is shown in the accompanying sketch. Material 

 is transported very rapidly along the eastern side of the beach, 

 in spite of its coarseness. Along the west the travel seems to be 

 much slower because of the relatively small size of the waves. 



This spit must be very old. Near 

 the outer end of the fourth beach, 

 the highest of the series, is an oak 

 tree sixteen inches in diameter. This 

 beach and the earlier ones are 

 covered with a thick growth of large 

 cedars. 



6. Fish Point spit. — This spit is 

 not so large nor so well developed as the 

 others. The reasons for this are twofold : 

 first, on the east the source from which 

 material may be drawn is only about half a 

 mile of beach, and on the west the distance 

 is not much over two miles ; in the second 

 place, there is almost no drift cover, and the 

 rocks here seem to be a little less shaly than 

 elsewhere, consequently the supply of gravel 

 is not so abundant. The gravel which occurs 

 on the beaches on either side of the point is 

 very coarse, many of the rounded pebbles 

 exceeding two inches in the longest diameter, Foreland, May 24, 1903. 

 and there are numerous large plates up to ten pounds in weight. 

 The gravel at the spit is smaller than elsewhere, that on the east 



Fig. 8.— Fish Point 



