Fossils from Anticosti. 45 



limestone and forming cliffs sixty to seventy feet high, but 

 makes no mention of any pleistocene fossils. The specimens 

 collected by Col. Grant, and referred to in this note, are the 

 first that have come under my notice, and have been kindly 

 presented by their discoverer to the Peter Redpath Museum 

 of McGill University. 



The following are extracts from a letter of Col. Grant, 

 referring to their localities, and the mode of their occur- 

 rence: — 



" The Post-Tertiary shells were first noticed in patches of 

 blue clay in the south-west of Anticosti, in the bed of 

 Becscia Eiver, close to its mouth. "When first seen, I 

 thought it probable they had been washed in by a high tide 

 from the Gulf, but on proceeding a short distance up stream, 

 I found the clay and shells in situ, capped by a considerable 

 thickness of drift, boulders, etc., in the river bank. The 

 shells appeared to be unusually large. I collected a con- 

 siderable number. Many got subsequently broken in rough 

 weather. 



" The Pleistocene clay, (Leda Clay) occurs also in the bank 

 and bed of Chaloupe River, and it is exposed along the cliff 

 within a few miles west of the South-west Point light- 

 house, 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 cliff 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 bouldei-s 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 Richardson, is also crowned by a 



