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All these bold contours are brought closely together so that in the 

 radius of a mile from the courthouse we embrace the Murailles, 

 cliffs of Joli, Canon, "the Perce rock, the broad intervales of the coves 

 and the low south escarpments of the horizontal conglomerate. And 

 behind them all, as a background to the picture, rises Mt Ste Anne, 

 its lofty perpendicular precipices on the eastern face rising to a 

 hight of about 1400 feet. On the slopes of this easternmost member 

 of the cluster of summits known as Perce mountain, pious ardor has 

 cleared a broad way to the shrine at the top whence the eye travels 

 without obstruction to Anse du Cap and Grande Riviere southward, 

 and northward to Pointe St Peter across Malbay and to Shiphead 

 and the shores of Grande Greve across Gaspe bay; inland over the 

 rolling timbered wilderness toward the Shickshock mountains, and 

 seaward beyond the Perce rock to the island of Bonaventure 3 miles 

 away. This mountain is the summit of the great cap of red con- 

 glomerate which lies over and against the erect limestones of Perce, 

 Cap Canon and Cap Blanc, extends downward to the sea at the 

 Robin beach and makes the Perce reef, and doubtless continues 

 beneath the water to Bonaventure island where only this rock is 

 found. 



From the slopes of Mt Ste Anne flow the little drainage ways of 

 the region, the stream of Le Coule or Barre brook to the North 

 beach, Robin brook to the South beach and Lenfest3^'s brook directly 

 through the rising escarpment of the Bonaventure rocks to the 

 south. 



This brief sketch of the topography of Perce will serve as the 

 only necessary introduction to the sketch of its geology which, 

 without going far afield from the confines of the settlement, follows. 



GEOLOGY 



Pretty much all that has been known of the geology of this region 

 we still owe to Sir William Logan, first director of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada. In 1844, the second season of his field work in 

 this capacity. Sir William made it his business to reconnoiter the 

 rocky and wild coasts of the Gaspe country, then and in the season 

 of 1845 making traverses from the Gulf of St Lawrence to the Bay 



