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town. All the higher beds of Mt Ste Anne are composed of lime- 

 stone conglomerates with very little jasper and as the cement is 

 calcareous it falls away freely. It was noted by Ells that these 

 pebbles and boulders of the conglomerate contain Siluric fossils. 

 We have found in them Chonetes canadensis, Spirifer 

 murchisoni, Megalanteris plicata, Meristella 

 a r c u a t a and D a 1 m a n i t e s p e r c e e n s i s, all fossils of the 



Limestone conglomerate, Mt Ste Anne 



Perce rock ; also Halysites catenularia, Heliolites, and in 

 some sandstone pebbles a small Spirifer like S. vanuxemi. 

 These fossil-bearing pebbles were found to the summit of the moun- 

 tain even in the platform on which rests the shrine of Ste Anne. 

 As this point is nearly 1400 feet above tide, the thickness of these 

 red beds can not be less than 1200 feet and down along the shore 

 land it seems to fill or to have stained all the depressions between 

 the scarps of vertical limestone so that even on the shore when the 

 soil is opened, blocks of the conglomerate are set free. 



