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N.EW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Sandy Beach and the Peninsula nearly strangle the waterway, down along 

 the hills of the Forillon to Cape Gaspe ; and in the other direction the eye 

 follows the shore line from Cape Ramsay along the course of the Basin 

 which is bounded by a rising summit of like hills. The Basin is a harbor 

 of such dimensions and absolute security that it is full of craft of many 

 kinds, the schooners of the Robin fishing establishments, the luggers of 

 coastwise trade, the cruisers of the cable inspection and fisheries service, 

 the packet boats to Anticosti and the Labrador, now and then a pleasure 

 yacht ; and, when the sea is heavy outside, the fishing barges come 

 scurrying in by scores. 



From Gaspe eastward through Haldimand and Douglastown these 

 sandstones extend, making low rocky shores but changing in color from 



Gaspe Mt 



Gaspe Bay 



(£) approximate position oi fossiliferous beds 



Caspa' sona^3Con\ 



Approximate section of the Gaspe sandstones from Gaspe Basin across the northwest arm of Gaspe bay to the 



limestone hills 



gray shades into red, and forming the red banks of the south shore of the 

 Bay to Point St Peter. Here they face the Gulf and though still low the 

 waters have played havoc with them. Included with them are the variously 

 dipped limestone conglomerates and the play of the waves readily works 

 these out into caverns and grottoes. At Point St Peter the waters have 

 cut off little Plateau Island and honey-combed it with holes like the sub- 

 terranean workings of a giant mole. 



Little has been added to our knowledge of the stratigraphy of this 

 vast deposit of sandstone since the date of the Geology of Canada. The 

 great thickness assigned by Logan to the strata, 7036 feet, was assuirjed 

 by Ells (1882) as a proper expression, but since the latter date Dr Ells has 

 located certain presumable fault lines essentially parallel to the anticlinal 

 axes, which are shown on the map here given, taken from his report on 



