172 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
north coast of the Gaspé Peninsula,* and of Bic ? are chiefly limestones, 
calcareous sandstones, limestone-conglomerates, and calcareous slates; 
the northwestern escarpments of Table-top Mt., where Salix vestita 
and 8S. glauca, Saxifraga oppositifolia, S. Aizoon and S. aizoides, and 
Primula mistassinica abound, are limestones;? the river-cliffs and 
ledges of many streams of eastern Quebec, northern New Brunswick 
and Maine, characterized by Cryptogramma Stelleri, Asplenium viride, 
Woodsia alpina and W. glabella, Carex eburnea, Tofieldia glutinosa, 
Astragalus elegans, Hedysarum boreale, , Shepherdia canadensis, 
Primula mistassinica, Pinguicula vulgaris, Erigeron hyssopifolius, 
etc., are chiefly limestones and limy slates (Silurian),‘ or frequently 
some other rock penetrated by veins of calcite; the famous cliffs at 
Willoughby where the most notable plants occur are of impure lime- 
stone;° and the great cliffs of Smuggler’s Notch, unknown personally 
to the writer, are said by those who are familiar with them to show 
1“On the south te of the St. Lawrence, in the counties of Gaspé and Rimouski, the 
tocks of the Quebec group are unconformably overlaid by a series of calcareous strata, 
which we have riohy accustomed to call the Gaspé limestones.”—Logan, Geology of 
Canada, 390 (1863). For further details see Logan, l. ¢. A 0-453; also Ells, Geol. Surv. 
Can., Rep. of Progress for kaka, and ~82, par A os D (18 83). 
2"'In the vicinity of Bic Har t lomerate! 
and the associated calcar cae stones of groups sB ELotwen Silurian conglom: merate 
limestones], and it is to the feds which they have offered to the destroying agencies 
i Bic Harbou 
vemieed eleven feet long oe six feet bro wenty- 
— Richardson, Geol. . Rep, of Progr. for 1858, pp. 149, 150 0 (185. 
aton’s microscopical sailed of rock-samples collected by the writer 
Tt limestone sans other pebbles and boulders to 
e 
. Along the east and west flanks of ‘Table-top Mountain, beds “ ee limestone 
hich, on account 
of ‘thelr resemblance to the pom ee, al ve poest, described in in former t repo 
and their a in relation 
Th 
Dm 
2 
I 
oo 
S 
& 
4 
id 
i r n east @ 
esa along the general strike of the rocks, and are cut by numerous brooks on ge 
Ste. iB ne Bear “shed, distant about six miles rat the coast, and between it and the 
= ie mot o _ es outlines, and are well wooded, although in the vicinity 
0 a height of 3g! th 1, the general 
height being about fifteen hundred i aes ie apa gt 1882-83- 
pt. 884 4), , 
+See Logan, Geol. of Canada (1863): J. W. 
: D: 8); ete. 
5 See Kisnede. Rwopora, vi, 94, 95 (1904), jc aaa a be 
