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festy's brook and beyond to the headland which bounds the South cove, 

 two miles away, Cape Blanc or Whitehead, another vertical mass of lime- 

 stones over the edges of which the red strata of the Bonaventure conglom- 

 erate have been laid flat. 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 deepl)' 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 strik- 

 ing but its impressiveness is 

 appreciated best onh' from the 

 sea, from which its rock)- front 

 is alone approachable. At the 

 north end of the North coA'e the 

 escarpment rises abruptly in the Qi 

 calcareous and arenaceous shales 

 of Cape Barre ; thence north- 

 ward 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 East face of Mt joii 



gorge of the Grande Coupe. Except for Cape 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. 



All these bold contours are brought closely together so that in the 



