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and 608 feet. Water work on the slopes west of the village was seen up 

 to about 655 feet. The theoretic height here is 700 feet or a little more. 

 The Matapedia Eiver, flowing to Chaleur Bay, has left as fine display of 

 declining delta plains as any valley can show. These head at about 600 

 feet and fall to sealevel. The extensive, smooth plain at Sayabec, 581 

 feet, is taken as the marine level. 



The south shore of the Gaspe Peninsula, from Matapedia to Gaspe vil- 

 lage, displays a profusion of elevated shore phenomena in beach lines, 

 terraces, and sand-plains. These are conspicuous from the railroad, lying 

 high on the northern and western slopes. Glacial waters were here im- 

 possible. 



The minimum figures in the tabulation for the shore south of Perce 

 are eye estimates, using the hand level from railroad elevations. From 

 Perce to Gaspe the figures are reliable measurements, with the checked 

 aneroid from sealevel or from the railroad stations. 



Between Douglastown and Barachois are a series of streams the deltas 

 of which form a wide plain, broken by the present ravines, which gives 

 the railroad a long stretch of track at or near 215 feet altitude. The 

 summit level of the deltas is above, west of, the railroad. This can readily 

 be measured and will undoubtedly give very precise figures for the initial 

 marine shore. 



Between Perce village and Corner of the Beach, by the short road, are 

 several detrital fillings in the valleys, with some good, but inconspicuous, 

 gravel plains at 225 to 230 feet, and at least one good bar crossing the 

 highway at 225 feet (plate 11, figure 2). 



The most conspicuous ancient shore feature at Comer of the Beach is 

 the massive bar and the sloping beach west of the village at 85 feet alti- 

 tude. A strong terrace beach at the same height is conspicuous at and 

 west of Gaspe village (plates 12, 13, and 14) . 



At Gaspe the slopes above the 85-foot bench exhibit effects of wave 

 action, but the summit level is not apparent. However, this was found 

 about two miles west of the village, along the 'Vest portage road," in the 

 pass between the two bays. Here are clear evidences of standing water 

 up to about 240 feet. The features, small deltas and smoothed slopes, 

 are positive up to 235 feet and seem lacking at 250 feet. Since these 

 figures were noted it is found that they agree with Chalmers' determina- 

 tion. In his report, number 8 in the appended list, page 22 M, he gives 

 the altitude at Gaspe Bay 225 to 230 feet and repeats the figures in his 

 report 10, page 15 J. In number 16, page 254 A, he gives the limit of 

 Pleistocene submergence at Gaspe as 240 feet. 



