26 J GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



The interior is a rough, rolling plateau, varying in elevation from 

 50 to 200 feet above sea level. On the south and east sides it ends in 

 an abrupt escarpment, highest on the south ; on the west and north 

 the high interior land descends with an unbroken slope to a low shore- 

 Starting from South-east Point, this escarpment runs westward at an 

 angle of twenty degrees to the shore, consequently, on its west side- 

 it is a considerable distance inland. At the east end it has an eleva- 

 tion of seven ty-tive feet above sea level. This increases for four miles r 

 where the maximum elevation of 200 feet is reached, fifty feet above 

 the general level of the interior plateau, and standing above it with a 

 cut bank that height on the north side, one-quarter of a mile from the 

 southern margin of the escarpment, beyond which it decreases slowly 

 westward, and is lost in the general low level of the west 

 side. The face of the escarpment was examined at several points 

 along its length, and found to consist of a moderately fine, light sand, 

 with some clay, coarser gravel and small boulders mixed through the 

 mass, the whole showing no signs of stratification. Going north from 

 the south-east point for one mile, the escarpment averages sixty feet 

 in elevation, with its base within a few. yards of high water mark. 

 Behind this, at a distance of 200 yards, is a second escarpment, thirty 

 feet higher than the first. These, on their face, have the same com- 

 position as the southern escarpment. At the end of this course, and 

 for one mile and a-half beyond to House Point, the descent from the 

 interior is less precipitous, the land rising in three terraces — the first, 

 ten feet, the next, forty feet, and the highest one, a quarter of a mile 

 inland, 100. feet above the sea. 



From House Point, for half a-mile, the face of the twenty-foot ter- 

 race is made up of sandy clay, with much gravel and boulders, rising 

 out of deep water. From here the escarpment turns N. 30° W. for 

 five miles, and then east five miles and a-half, passing inland ai-ound 

 the head of a low, muddy bay, and reaching the shore again one mile 

 south of the north-east point. 

 Terraces. Here, on the east side, two distinct terraces are visible, the lower 



being fifteen and the higher seventy-five feet above the sea. The face 

 of the inner terrace is chiefly sand, mixed with a considerable quantity 

 of clay, and with many boulders scattered through the mass. To the 

 westward of the north-east point, along the shore, the lower terrace is- 

 soon lost in the upper one, which, a mile beyond the point, shows a 

 face of forty feet, composed of an unstratified sandy clay matrix, hold- 

 ing large quantities of boulders and coarse gr-avel. 



Further to the westward the cut bank gradually loses its elevation, 

 and two miles beyond the last described place is only about ten feet high; 

 from here to the south-west point no banks occur, the shore line being 



