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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



GEOLOGY OF THE FORILLON 



The first of Sir William Logan's endeavors as director of the Canadian 

 survey was by boat and portage to decipher the structure of this little 

 peninsula which lies between the St Lawrence river and Gaspe bay. The 

 display of the rock succession here and its profusion in organic remains will 

 assure its perpetual attraction to the student of geology. 



Sketch of Grande Greve looking west, the Fruing and Hyma'n fishing stations in the foreground, the promontory of Little 

 Gaspe in the middle distance. At the right the slope of the hills is approximately the same as the dip of the limestones and 

 the mountains in the background express the same feature. 



From the broad fist of Rosier cape and cove this spine of land runs 

 out into the sea like an index finger, as it might say to the observer of 



Gaspe scenery 



Dj^ Mark well her bulwarks 



It is but a remnant saved from the destruction of the waves and, 

 barely a half mile across at the portage above the Grande Greve, it is not 

 only going down, but being devoured as it goes. Its rib of mountains 



