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Stands the majestic Isle Percee, the Pierced Rock, most glorious 

 natural feature on all the eastern seaboard. 



Thus embrasured amid geologic scenery whose secrets were 

 first unloosed by Logan, the park serves well to keep alive the 

 memory of a great geologist. Logan, bom in Montreal in 1798, 

 trained in Scotland and Wales, returned to America in 1837 to 

 study the coals of Nova Scotia and Pennsylvania. Seeing the 

 great possibilities of geological development in Canada, he con- 

 ceived and executed a purpose to organize an official survey of 

 the public domain, as it then was. This organization became 

 effective in 1841 and he, as its chief, suspecting there was 

 coal to be found in the rocks of Gaspe, began his first season's 

 work on this coast. Instead of finding coal he discovered an 

 amazing series of Paleozoic rocks, similar in character to and an 

 actual extension of those which had just been described by the 

 geologists of the New York Survey in their annual reports from 

 1837 to 1841. His very first work thus established a common bond 

 between Gaspe and New York which has been and is to be eternal. 

 Similar scientific concerns brought Logan into intimate relations 

 with Hall, the great geologist of New York, and the two men 

 joined hands in many scientific enterprises. It is fitting therefore 

 that New York should join in his memorial. 



The Logan memorial was unveiled July, 19 13 in the presence 

 of nearly a hundred geologists from all nations of the world brought 

 together by the International Congress, and on this occasion brief 

 addresses were made by Dr A. E. Barlow for the committee, 

 Charles Lamb, Esq., mayor of the town, and by the writer. 



THE HUGH MILLER CLIFFS 



On the Quebec coast qf the Bay Chaleur, just where the broad 

 waters of the Ristigouche river discharge into it, is Scaumenac bay, 

 a long arc of shore bounded at its eastern end by Pointe-a-la-Garde 

 (whose name commemorates the last fight of the '' Conquest," 1760), 

 and at its western by Magouasha point. Midway in this arc at 

 the mouth of the Scaumenac .river, projects Fleurant point, and 

 from Fleurant point to Magouasha point rise the rock cliffs which 

 have in later years become so celebi-ated in geology as the depositary 

 of infinite remains of fishes of the " Old Red Sandstone." 



Nowhere in the world are these singular fishes so amazingly 

 abundant or so remarkably preserved, and the Scaumenac rocks 

 have become celebrated afar for their wealth of this ancient life. 

 These creatures are like the '' Old Red Sandstone " fishes that 

 Hugh Miller portrayed on the pages of his remarkable books, 



