184 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
Aap = sete of eighty miles, with an average breadth of two miles; thus giving 
superfi of more than one hundred and sixty square miles, The thickness of the 
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3 “Tt is not until reaching the ccm Islands, between 500 and 600 miles to the north- 
eastward, that we have any of its s [Calciferous formation] pees. istic fossils. ...At 
the Mingan Islands and on th coast, there appears an interesting extension 
of this formation extending from Mingan River to Cee Island, a distance 
a8 suse forty-five miles. It occupies the inner range of islands and most of the 
— Logan, 1. c. 119 (1863 
_ 2 *Hiabiece this exposure [Mingan os and Bradore Bay, the distance is about 
300 miles. ‘The shore, which is very much indented by bays and inlets, and fringed 
wi in 
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Ae part - —s there been observed any strata, but such as — to the Lauren- 
se e east side of Bradore Bay, which is situated near to the entrance to 
the rests ; Ste Isle from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the palaeozoic ree again present 
themselves, in the Laurentian gneiss, they run along the coast for 
hese yellow-weathering esaeeraie pass in some parts into grey, compact, Raid 
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5“ At Henley ‘Haba [Chateau Bay] is a system of trap-rocks. ...These rocks pee 
of three masses of columnar basalt, capping the s = he nitic gneiss. It is a hard, fine, co 
pact dolerite. ...West of these basaltic rocks, on the opposite side of the harbor, ne 
wl trap bea forming a hill over three picined feet high.””— Packard, Lab. Coast, 
85, 286 (1891 
6] able to find any specific — in regard to Battle pets which is 
situated between Chateau Bay (5) and the great anorthosite area of . t.Michael Bay- 
7“ At Indian Harbor. ...these same ‘eagle [‘Domino Gneisses’] appe ‘vat ney 
accompanying these rocks is a doleritic trap of a peculiar poorest character. 
It is composed of large e crystalline masses of hypersthene and labradorite [a lime-soda 
feldspar]”— Packard, 1. ¢, 288, 289 (1891). 
8“ About an hour vette we reached Hopedale, we passed a high suger los 
island ‘Th con’...,The rock was evidently that variety of syenite taining 
labradorite [a lime- soda feldspar] and green hornblende,””—Packard Trap 
dykes (doleritic) like. those at Chateau Bay were seen at Hopedale 
e Swedish trappa, meaning a series of steps or stairs.”— 
rd, l. ¢., 206, 286 1901). 
opedale rs underlies the eastern end of Paul’s Island, but a few miles 
west of Ford Harbor, it comes in contact with the famous ss esobeegggaee yg a ert 
and allied gabbro pacdes is derived the schillerizing labrador 
e 
Massive gabbro for fifteen miles... .all the mainland visible oe is ¢ aa 
sero gabbro.”— Daly, Bull. Mus. Ronin Zool., Harvard, Geol. Ser. v. no. 5, 164 
© At Mugford, “next above the light colored zone of the schists comes a noises of black 
slates fifty to one hundred feet thick, indurated at the contact by a conformabl e three 
oot sheet of apparently intrusive diabase [containing ae ae 
acting Dat the southwest end of the Tickle, t i n, ins 
. discusses the sedimenta ary and intrusive rocks 0 ist. 
which are similar to those of the Kaumajet Mts. See also Bell, Geol. pe Nat. # 
Surv. Can., Rep. for 1882-83-84, 15 DD, etc. — nvak 
On the west shore of the first cove, from the entrance, on the south side south isa 
cs of a coarse-grai oy a we or breccia... .to the - 
coarse grey mica thi r the e slaty brec eccia, yee 
was found, from a foot to two feet in ar aad holding patches of ae 
ing calcspar. "— Bell, 1. ¢. 18,1 16 (1884), 
