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SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST: QUEBEC CITY. 



I. Sous le Cap and Cham-plain Streets. 



Sous le Cap is an exceedingly narrow and not very 

 pleasant street or alley under the cliff and is constantly 

 shown visitors as the "narrowest street on the American 

 continent," or the "narrowest street in the world." Pass- 

 ing close to the cliff it affords an occasional glimpse, on 

 the north, of the shales and limestones of the Quebec 

 city formation. Sous le Cap ends at St. Jacques street, 

 from here, after turning into Sault au Matelot and con- 

 tinuing to Cote de la Montagne, one should turn 

 up the hill and stop a few moments to examine the faulted 

 and crushed conglomerate in the face of the bluff. The 

 pebbles here are quite fossiliferous and contain the Lower 

 Trenton fauna with Nidulites, Ampyx, Tetraspis and 

 other fossils of the Atlantic facies. 



Faulting has in large part been responsible for the 

 structure shown in this cliff face, and the first impression 

 conveyed is that this is not a conglomerate, but that 

 the pebbles are due to the disruption of regular layers. 

 After a comparison of this outcrop with others about 

 the city however, it is believed that this is really a con- 

 glomerate torn up and softened by the crushing which 

 has taken place in the faulting. 



By retraversing Cote de la Montagne and turning 

 into Notre Dame street, one passes the church of Notre 

 Dame des Victoires, built in 1668. At the second corner, 

 by turning into the Cul de Sac, the headquarters during 

 the French regime of the rich pawnbrokers, one reaches 

 Champlain street. Coming out of the Cul de Sac, the 

 vacant space on the left is the old Champlain market. 

 Beyond the Champlain market on the north, above the 

 road, the nearly vertical limestone of the Quebec City 

 formation is seen surmounted by the Dufferin terrace. At 

 the further end of the terrace traces may still be seen 

 of the great landslide of 1881. The strata here have a 

 steep dip into the cliff. The upper ends of the beds 

 formerly overhung the road, but finally they gave way 

 and crashed down into the houses lining the road beneath, 

 killing many people. 



Beyond this point the nearly vertical strata, limestone 

 and shale, form a great cliff along the north side of the 

 road. The shale has in places a secondary cleavage. 



