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of Chaleurs, " living " as he has said " the life of a savage, sleeping 

 on the beach in a blanket sack with my feet to the fire, seldom taking 

 my clothes off, eating salt pork and ship's biscuit, occasionally tor- 

 mented with mosquitos." The venerable Mr Philip Le Boutillier 

 tells me of having piloted Sir William about the rocks of Perce and 

 with him scaling the summit of Mt Ste Anne. 



In his classical Geology of Canada published in 1863 Logan sum- 

 marized the results of his observations here, and that part of his work 

 in which our interest more specially lies is his detailed account of 

 the limestones, sandstones and conglomerates of the region, enor- 

 mous series of sediments which he termed the Gaspe limestones, 

 Gaspe sandstones and Bonaventure conglomerates. Several of the 

 Canadian geologists have added much to our knowledge of these 

 formations ; Dr Robert Bell, who early explored the region ; Sir 

 William Dawson, who studied the plant remains of the Gaspe sand- 

 stone; Elkanah Billings, who has made known almost our entire 

 equipment of facts concerning the animal fossils of the rocks ; R. W. 

 Ells, who as late as 1882 reviewed the general geologic features of 

 the country and added some important details, while Dr H. M. Ami 

 has contributed a few observations on the faunas. 



The Gaspe limestones were defined by Logan from their most 

 remarkable development on the narrow tongue of land which con- 

 stitutes the peninsula of Cape Gaspe eastward of Cape Rozier on 

 the north and Little Gaspe on the south. Here the succession is 

 apparently uninterrupted, the dip estimated at about s.w. 24^, and 

 the series rests unconformably on the shales of Cambric age at Cape 

 Rozier. Through this narrow neck of land not more than a mile 

 across from the Gulf of St Lawrence to Gaspe bay at 

 Grande Greve run two limestone escarpments, the northern 

 terminating in Cape Gaspe, the southern in Shiphead and the 

 two separated by an eroded, not structural, drainage way. Logan 

 estimated the thickness of this continuous mass at about 2000 feet, 

 and divided it into eight parts, divisions i to 8, between which was 

 found no evidence of unconformity but some notable distinctions 

 in quality, the strata becoming more highly calcareous with some 

 intermixture of arenaceous matter toward the top. All were re- 



