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Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



38-6 m. Little Metis Station — Alt. 569 ft. (173-4111.). 



62 • 1 km. Little Metis station is high on the side of the 

 valley of Little Metis river which the railway 

 follows upwards for a few miles passing through 

 many rock cuttings in red and dark slates, and 

 sandstones. The strata in some of the rock 

 cuttings are highly contorted. 



Leaving the Little Metis valley, the railroad 

 continues to ascend through a rough, broken 

 country. 



42-5 m. Kempt Station — Alt. 688 ft. (209-7 m.). 



68-4 km. Beyond Kempt the railway passes through rock 

 cuttings in red and black slates. The railroad 

 then follows up the valley of a small stream with 

 rock walls of dark slates. 



50-5 m. St. Moise Station — Alt. 540 ft. (195 m.). 



81 -3 km. In the neighbourhood of St. Moise an extensive 

 view is afforded to the northeast over a low, 

 broken country with one rather high hill nearby. 

 Rock cuts in red and black slates occur along the 

 railway which at a point several miles east of 

 St. Moise, passes over a low summit, altitude 

 771 ft. (235 m.) and drops to the shores of 

 a small lake draining eastward to Lake Mata- 

 pedia. A short distance beyond this small 

 lake, the last rock cut in the dark "Cambrian" 

 slates is passed and the railway enters a com- 

 paratively level area underlain by nearly flat- 

 lying Silurian measures. The level area is 

 bounded on the southwest by the high hills of 

 the Shickshock or Notre Dame mountains 

 visible from the railway. The Silurian strata 

 unconformably overlie the "Cambrian". The 

 lowest beds are white and pinkish sandstones 

 with a thickness of about 60 feet (18 m.). These 

 are overlain by dark grey fossiliferous limestone 

 probably of Niagara age. 



57-9 m. Sayabec Station — Alt. 578 ft. (176-2 m.). 



93-2 km. Sayabec is situated about a mile south of the 

 head of Lake Matapedia. A few miles past 

 Sayabec the railroad approaches close to the 

 shore of the lake. Nearly horizontal Silurian 

 strata outcrop along the southwestern shores 

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