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The plotting to scale of the writer’s results shows a steady rise of the 
main beach levels from east to west, but it cannot be said that any indivi- 
dual beach has been traced continuously for long distances, as has been done 
with several of the ancient lake beaches in Ontario. As might be expected 
the beaches on the south side of Gaspe are much less striking than those 
on the north side, where the stretch of water was so much wider than on 
Chaleur bay, and where wave action must have been so much more powerful. 
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF FIELD WORK 
Beginning at the low pass followed by the Intercolonial railway 
between Notre Dame mountains to the west and the Shickshocks to the 
east, the Pleistocene features of the north shore of Gaspe will be described 
from point to point to cape Gaspe. The south coast will then be taken 
up from east to west; and next the Cascapedia valley northwestwards to 
the watershed. Afterwards accounts will be given of inland features on 
Cap-Chat river, Ste. Anne river, and Shickshock mountains; and finally 
the geology of Cascapedia river and the Federal Zinc and Lead Mine region 
will be taken up. 
Attention was directed chiefly to Pleistocene features during the 
field work and the bedrock geology will be referred to only incidentally. 
The Survey reports and the work of Dr. J. M. Clarke, mentioned on a 
former page, may be referred to for accounts of the Palaeozoic rocks and 
their fossils and also for descriptions of the general structural features of 
the region, which are complex and full of interest but require far more 
detailed field work than has yet been devoted to them. 
Ste. Flavie and Mont-Joli 
Ste. Flavie is built upon the Micmac terrace, about 20 feet above 
mean soa-level: to the south there is a well-marked shore cliff cut in cla}' 
containing Laurentian boulders and evidently formed by the Labrador 
ice-sheet coming from the north or northwest. This boulder clay, blue 
in colour and typical, is found at road cuttings in various places toward 
the east in the same shore cliff, as well as along the railway just west of 
Mont-Joli, 263 feet above the sea. 
Going inland h}' the road to Mont-Joli two higher terraces are passed 
before reaching the railway, which is a few feet below the rear of a fourth 
terrace, at 267 feet. Following the road to the south beyond the town, 
marine levels are found at 194 and 263 feet, and probably at 398 feet. 
Above this, large Archgean boulders occur up to 434 feet on the hills, pro- 
bably ice-rafted and indicating a transient higher sea-level which has left 
no well-marked terrace. On a hill a mile or two southeast of Mont-Joli 
small boulders of granite and gneiss are found in stone heaps along with 
striated stones of local origin, apparently left by the Labrador sheet and 
not due to floating ice. 
Above the level of the railway glacial materials are only thinly spread 
and the crumbling bedrock, mainly soft slate, forms the soil of the hills. 
The relations just described — of marine terraces on which rest ice- 
rafted boulders, and of blue boulder clay of northern origin at lower levels, 
and weathered bedrock at higher ones — occur at various places to the east 
of Ste. Flavie, as at Metis, Sandy Bay, and Rivi&re-Blanche. To mention 
in detail the individual observations would lead to much repetition. 
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