REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR IQII I23 



Fish remains similar to those of Scaumenac bay (Migouasha) 

 twenty-five miles west, are reported to me by trappers as occurring 

 about ten miles up the Grand Cascapedia, a statement I have 

 no present means of verifying. In my judgment the brachiopods 

 cited help to substantiate Doctor EUs's view that the Devonic basin 

 here was separated by uplifts of earlier rocks from the Gaspe sand- 

 stone basin at the east and was probably continuous with the Devonic 

 basin at the west carrying the Migouasha fish beds. In a previous 

 paper I have pointed out the probable occurrence of the Lower 

 Devonic in the Migouasha-Restigouche region with the species 

 Cyrtodonta gratia and Schuchertella, while the Leptocoelia 

 and Rensselaeria here mentioned indubitably point to its presence 

 not far away. 



The Siluric section now in consideration begins not far from the 

 southeast angle of the mouth of the Little Cascapedia and, as already 

 stated, continues without any material topographic break as far as 

 Black cape, a distance of a little more than two miles along the bay 

 shore. The rock strata are almost uniform in their upright attitude 

 throughout their extent, pitched high with steep inclination for the 

 most part to the south-southeast. Ells notes a variety of dips, some 

 to the south-southwest and varying in angle from 40° to 75° ; yet 

 westerly dips are unusual and rather restricted . in extent. This 

 change in direction of strike is a deformation of slender magnitude. 

 i\Iy inspection of the entire section is by no means a thorough one, 

 but a watchful eye for suspected displacements and duplications has 

 failed to detect any, and if such are present they are certainly veiled 

 in parallel unconformities. Reappearances of strata of similar litho- 

 logic character are evident, but it is not certain that their fossils are 

 alike. I desire to make all reservation necessary regarding possible 

 duplication in the section, for the thickness of these Siluric beds, 

 estimated apart from such possibilities, is very great, several thou- 

 sand feet at all events. Yet it is well to recall in this connection that 

 the Canadian geologists who have traversed the interior waterways 

 j of this great peninsula record the very great extent of the Silurians 

 all through the region and inferentially their correspondingly great 

 thickness. The upturned edges of these strata are ragged and much 

 ' eroded. Though they are not here visibly overlain by the later 

 i deposits an open cleft on the face of the cliff near the middle of the 

 I section, three feet across and twenty feet high, is filled with fine red 

 sandstone of Bonaventure age which has filtered in from above and 

 lies now in oblique saucer-shaped layers, its color in striking contrast 

 ; to the blue grays of the adjoining vertical limestones. 



