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Cap Canon massive. Directly south or below the abrupt termina- 

 tion of Mt Joli is a beach interval where no rock exposure is seen 

 for a length of 345 feet. The grass grown bank shows a red soil 

 cap and in it here and there are blocks of red conglomerate, as 

 though (and to such evidence we may return) deposition of the red 

 conglomerates was over a rough bottom wherein this clay-banked 

 beach was a deeply gullied line of disturbance. The rocks of Cap 

 Canon are calcareous shales and black argillaceous slates, greatly 



The Limekiln massive 



disturbed internally by folds and undulations, thrusts of slight 

 measure which have produced glistening shear faces, veined in all 

 directions, richly jointed and cleaved, but in spite of these internal 

 displacements the vertical attitude of the mass is still apparent with 

 a slight general inclination toward the north. 



This mass, irrespective of its undulations has a sea front 630 feet 

 long and this is approximately a measure of its actual thickness. In 

 lithologic character there is a marked difference between it and that 

 of Joli, chiefly expressed in its slatiness. It has, after repeated 

 search, revealed no fossils. 



