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This limestone fold runs inland, capped with sandstone on its southern 

 slope beyond Little Gaspe, to the far upper reaches of the Dartmouth river. 

 From Shiphead to the head of the Northwest arm and beyond one sees the 

 rocks constantly dipping to the south under the bay and river. 



2 The Cape Haldimand anticline, the next south, is of much less 

 amplitude than the first. The axis runs through Gaspe Basin and one may 

 observe the sandstones here dipping steeply north on the shore of the North- 

 west arm, to meet at the bottom of the bay the southern limb of the Forillon 

 fold, while on the shore of the Southwest arm they slope steeply to the south. 

 Here Gaspe mountain is the fold and the flexure runs under the waters of the 

 bay at Cape Haldimand. In the trough between folds i and 2 lies the most 

 of Gaspe bay and along its course the Dartmouth river runs for many miles. 



3 The third fold strikes the coast at Tar point opposite Grande Greve 

 and keeps its parallel course with the others far to the mountains of the 

 interior. Between the Cape Haldimand and Tar point anticlines lie the 

 barachois at Douglastown and the Southwest arm of Gaspe Basin, remnants 

 of the great sea arm that once entered the old troughs. 



4 Fold number four makes its appearance on the coast at Whalehead 

 or Point St Peter running back into the distant hills with limestone 

 breaking through their tops, and between the Tar point anticline and this 

 lie parts of the courses of the York river running into the Southwest 

 arm and of the St John which empties into the barachois at Douglastown. 

 Like other rivers in other parts of the Appalachian mountain system the 

 Dartmouth, York and St John have the fashion of cutting their way across 

 the folds in their newer and more active upper reaches. 



5 The Malbay or Perce anticline is the southernmost of the folds and 

 shows itself in the upturned limestones of Perce, curving inland along the 

 southernmost stretch of limestone rocks. Between its sea end and that of 

 the St Peter anticline lie Malbay' and its barachois, marking the effort of 

 the sea to reenter this ancient trough. 



'Malbay; anglicized and distorted French. Originally the Baie des Moliies (in 

 modern French, morues), otherwise Codfish bay. 



