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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



radius of a mile from the courthouse we embrace the Murailles, cliffs of 

 Joli, Canon, the Perce rock, the broad intervales of the coves and the 

 low south escarpments of the horizontal conglomerate. And behind them 

 all, as a background to the picture, rises Mt Ste Anne, its lofty perpen- 

 dicular precipices on the eastern face rising to a hight of about 1200 

 feet. The majestic beauties of this cluster of summits known as Perce 



Mountain can be appreciated only 

 by penetrating to the midst of their 

 bold bluffs and deep canyons. In 

 these recesses hidden away from 

 the traveler along the coast, the 

 artist's brush becomes as impotent 

 as a camera among the Alps. On 

 the slopes of the easternmost mem- 

 ber of this cluster pious ardor has 

 cleared a broad way to the shrine 

 '^ at the top, whence the eye travels 

 without obstruction to Anse du Cap 

 (Cape Cove) and Grande Riviere 

 southward, and northward to Point 

 St Peter across Malbay, and to 

 Shiphead and the shores of Grande 



Vertical strata on north face of Mt Joli; the Murailles in the GrCVe aCrOSS GaSpC bay ; inland 



over the rolling timbered wilderness 

 of the folded interior, and seaward beyond the Perce rock to the island of 

 Bonaventure, three miles away. This mountain is the summit of the 

 great cap of Bonaventure conglomerate which lies over and against the 

 erect limestones of Perce, Mt Joli, Cape Canon and Cape Blanc, extends 

 downward to the sea at the Robin beach and makes the Perce reef, 

 and continues beneath the water to Bonaventure island where only this 

 rock is found. 



From the slopes of Mt Ste Anne flow the little drainage ways of the 



