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resulted in broad coastal sand plains under comparatively 

 arid climate, during which the red Permian sands of Nova 

 Scotia, Prince Edward Island and the Magdalens, with their 

 sand-etched boulders, were laid down. With the close of 

 the Palaeozoic the lower channel of the river across the 

 Gulf region was high, the rock land on the west and east 

 extended close to it so that the channel now buried in the 

 Gulf was then the efficient river channel. The cutting 

 down of the land into its present broken coast line and 

 scattered islands and the submergence of the river channel 

 have taken place since the opening of Mesozoic time. 



GLACIAL AND POST-GLACIAL PHENOMENA. 



Gaspe does not appear to have been within the reach of 

 the great continental ice sheet. Its glacial phenomena are 

 scattered and evince only movements of land ice downward 

 from the mountains of its interior and deposits of this 

 origin are everywhere complicated with sea ice transporta- 

 tion; thus every northern boulder is under suspicion of 

 having been brought in by floating ice. The islands off 

 the coast, Prince Edward Island and the Magdalens, are 

 unglaciated. 



Elevated beaches are to be found at various points on 

 the peninsula. These are widely scattered and show 

 evidence of Pleistocene warping as in the case of the 

 terraces exposed at Gaspe basin. 



DETAILED DESCRIPTION. 



Perce.* 



L'Anse-au-Beaufils, the station for Perce, lies on the 

 coast 5 miles (9 km.) to the south. 



From L'Anse-au-Beaufils, Bonaventure island, from 

 which Bonaventure formation takes its name, is seen 

 at the east and the Perce mountains at the north. The 

 road to Perce leads from here due north and crosses Cap 

 Blanc or Whitehead. 



View of Perce from the Summit of the Road over Cap 

 Blanc. — The village (shire-town of Gaspe county) is on 

 a triangular rock plateau, with Mount Joli at its apex, 



*See Maps — Perce and vicinity, and, Perce. 



