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trough into easterri New York. The tangible evidence for this connection 

 will be set forth more fully hereafter. The Gaspe Eodevonic basin 

 extended from the Canadian Archean shield at the north to the limit of the 

 Dalhousie beds on the south and contracted in the middle Devonic. 

 Apparently there was no free and open conection between it and the parallel 

 contemporaneous embayments at the south in which the Chapmah and 

 Moose river sandstones of Maine were set down. 



