REPORT OF THE STATE PALEONTOLOGIST I903 I37 



are sheer and would demand surrender of the most daring. Clothed 

 in tints of red and yellow, which are the natural shades of the rock, 

 and veined with streaks of white, the colors of the cliffs change with 

 every passing cloud, alive with bright purples and lustrous bronze as 

 the sun shines full on it, in the cloud filtered light hanging like an 

 oriental tapestry in soft madders and browns, and when the land 

 mist hangs over it or the nor'easter is buffeting it, dark and minatory, 

 all its soft lines lost and its asperities stiffened in resistance. 



Turning landward the eye rests first on the topography of the 

 shore line, Mt Joli, a low truncated rock cone connected at low tide 

 with the Pierced rock by a sand bar, and about a hundred yards away, 

 hence extending southward into another small headland, Cap Canon, 

 sometimes Battery point, all a rock escarpment of vertical strata not 

 more than lOO feet high at any point. To the south of this opens 

 the broad Robin fishing beach, which reaches away to the nearly 

 horizontal outcrops of red conglomerate at the opening of Len- 

 festy's brook and beyond to the headland w^hich bounds the South 

 cove, 2 miles away. Cap Blanc or Whitehead; another vertical mass 

 of limestones lying between and beneath the red rocks. To the north 

 of Mt Joli and the beach of the North cove, begin the Murailles, the 

 high rocky sea wall which fronts the Malbay, rising with a deeply 

 notched sky line in grassy and deeply furrowed slopes and falling 

 off sheer to the water's edge; the tattered remains of a mountain 

 which stretched away into Malbay but has yielded its better part to 

 the restless tooth of the sea. The effect on the landscape of this 

 ragged escarpment is very striking but its impressiveness is appre- 

 ciated best only from the sea, from which it is alone approachable. 

 At the north end of the North cove the escarpment rises abruptly in 

 the calcareous and arenaceous shales of Cap Barre ; thence northward 

 framing the angular recesses beaten out by the sea, the cliff becomes 

 even higher till the line reaches Red peak at the north and falls off 

 abruptly into the gorge of the Grande Coupe. Except for Cap Barre 

 these rocks are brilliantly tinted with reds and yellows and, we shall 

 presently observe, were a part of the tinted strata comprising the 

 Perce rock, though here the angle of their slope is greatly altered 

 and nearly conforms to the slopes of the mountain surface. 



