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of the railway, well formed pocket beaches may be seen. 

 Unlike the prevailing slate of the St. Lawrence plain, 

 which splinters and flakes in a most unfavourable way for 

 beach construction, the limestone supplied the waves 

 with an abundance of good pebble making material. 

 Here, therefore, is one of the most satisfactory places on 

 the whole coast of the St. Lawrence to determine the 

 height to which the sea has washed the surface. A mile 

 or two southeast of the station, the upper marine limit 

 is very distinctly marked by a set of gravelly beaches 



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that stop abruptly at 311 feet (94-8 m.). On ledges 

 slightly above this level, the thickly scattered joint frag- 

 ments of limestone show no sign whatever of rounding 

 and assorting. No marine fossils have been discovered 

 in these highest beaches; in fact, discoveries of shells at 

 the extreme upper reach of submergence are rarely made. 

 Fossils of sub-arctic species may be collected, however, from 

 the deeper water clays at 120 feet (36-5 m.) two miles 

 east of the station on the road to Hattie bay. On the 



