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nearly 12 miles (19 km.) along the shore. The track 

 crosses it east of New Mills station. Like other kames of 

 the upper part of Chaleur bay, and of its tributaries the 

 Nouvelle and Cascapedia, this appears to be a river deposit, 

 formed within or against the ice during the withdrawal of 

 the glacier from the coast. The Restigouche kame is 

 175 feet (53-3 m.) high at its west end and 50 feet (15-2 m.) 

 high at the east end. As would be expected, it is over- 

 lapped by the fossiliferous marine clays which register 

 post-Glacial submergence. 



Along the north shore of Chaleur bay not a sign ot 

 wave-built beach or of wave-cut cliff appears above 75 feet 

 (22 • 8 m.) although the opportunity for them is the best. 

 Here and there faint beach ridges are to be seen below 

 the 75-foot mark, and at New Richmond marine fossils 

 have been collected from clays and sands which reach up 

 to 40 feet (12 -2 m.). At no place, however, have shells 

 been reported from altitudes as high as those on the south 

 side of the bay. All the way along the shore from Chaleur 

 bay around to Cape Gaspe the sea is trimming back fresh 

 cliffs into the land. While there is nothing extraordinary 

 about this in itself, it becomes important when this shore 

 is compared with that of the St. Lawrence just around 

 the end of Gaspe where a shelf 20 feet (6- 1 m.) above the 

 sea extends for three or four hundred miles along the coast 

 recording a recent elevation of 20 feet. Around on the 

 south side of the Gaspe peninsula the recent movement 

 if any, must have been a subsidence, slowly deepening 

 the water on the shelf, and facilitating the attack of the 

 sea against the cliffs. 



ANNOTATED GUIDE. 



DALHOUSIE JUNCTION TO NIPISGUIT JUNCTION. 



(G. A. Young.) 



Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



o m. Dalhousie Junction — Alt. 79 ft. (24 km.). 



o km. From Dalhousie Junction to Bathurst, the 



Intercolonial railway closely follows the 

 southern shore of the Bay of Chaleur. 

 Throughout nearly the whole distance the bold 

 front of the Gaspe highlands are visible rising 



