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north side of the railway the village of Bic extends out to 

 the brink of the old Micmac sea-cliff, which reappears 

 here with all its characteristic freshness and strength. 

 The great length of the Micmac stage is the more evident 

 when one compares the great sea cliff with the low bank 

 and marshy beach at the modern high tide mark. The 

 last twenty feet of the whole 311 feet (94-8 m.) elevation 

 of the coast at Bic seems to have been accomplished only 

 after centuries of stability or of slow coastal subsidence; 

 and judging by the ineffectiveness of the modern waves 

 this renewed uplift may still be going on. 



ANNOTATED GUIDE. 



BIC TO MATAPEDIA JUNCTION. 



(G. A. Young.) 



Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



o m. Bic — Alt. 82 ft. (25 m.). From Bic to 



o km. Matapedia Junction the Intercolonial railway 



for about 100 miles (160 km.) or as far as Little 

 Metis, parallels the St. Lawrence river either 

 passing close to the shore or inland at a distance 

 of several miles. Throughout this distance 

 the railway traverses a portion of the belt of 

 ' Cambrian ' strata that borders the St. Lawrence 

 on the south side from Quebec city eastwards. 

 As in the sections between Quebec and Bic, 

 the strata are largely red, green and black 

 slates with bands of sandstones, and local 

 developments of quartzose sandstones and 

 conglomerates containing fragments of fossilif- 

 erous limestone. The measures in general 

 strike parallel with the St. Lawrence, but are 

 closely folded and much faulted. The 'Cam- 

 brian' strata of this belt are bounded on the 

 south by a wide area of Silurian limestones. 



At Little Metis the course of the railway 

 turns inland, runs in an easterly direction across 

 the full width of the belt of 'Cambrian' meas- 

 ures, and entering the Silurian and Devonian 

 area of the Shickshock mountains, runs first 



