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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



THE GASPE SANDSTONES 



To Sir William Logan we again turn for the fullest account of the 

 extensive series of deposits which he embraced under this name. The 

 greater part of Gaspe county has been regarded as covered by these beds 

 folded into anticlines and synclines presumably conforming with the lime- 

 stones beneath. We are not certain of any erosion interval between the 

 two. The contact line at Little Gaspe cove is a practical conformity, its 

 variation therefrom being nothing in excess of the slight beach angle of 

 sands against a shore ; but the change is quite abrupt, the upper layer of 

 the limestone only showing some sandy content. 



The interior of Gaspe county is a heavily wooded, tenantless domain, 

 still a place of trails and portages, as little reduced to the pursuits and 



demands of civilization as the 

 interior of Patagonia. But moun- 

 tains of the same type as those 

 further inland though of gentler 

 expression are those which circle 

 the Gaspe basin. Here, with- 

 drawn from the fierce play of the 

 gulf storms, the softer and 

 rounder outlines prevail. The 

 Northwest and Southwest arms, 

 continuinor into the Dartmouth 

 and York rivers, run back along 

 ancient depressions or troughs in the folded rocks. Gaspe village is at 

 the axilla of these arms. If the traveler will let his rambles lead him 

 around the crest of Cape O'Hara and down the raised sea beach below 

 St. Albert's church he may observe the sandstone foundations of Gaspe 

 mountain sloping at a steep angle toward the north and may follow them 

 for a long distance up the Dartmouth river, to the volcanic dike at L'Anse 

 au Cousins and beyond, always at this inclination. Across the Northwest 



CuiiL.ict of Grande Greve limestone and Gaspe sandstone at Little 

 Gaspe 



