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Ste. Anne-des-Monts 
For various reasons more time was spent at Ste. Anne-des-Monts, 
8 miles east of Cap-Chat village, than at any other place, and no less than 
fourteen terraces were measured, running from 19 to 270 feet above the 
sea. Most of these occur along the valley of the river or on the hills on 
each side. Archsean boulders are frequent to the level of the highest 
beach, but above that are boulders of local sandstone or slate or else granite 
like that of Tabletop, or serpentine from mount Albert. 
Careful examination of the beach pebbles at the mouth of the river 
showed that most of them had the peculiarities of the Tabletop granites 
25 or 30 miles to the southeast. They may have been brought by the river, 
which has a fairly steep grade, 18' feet to the mile, or more probably by 
glaciers spreading from the highest parts of the mountains, which are of 
granite, and reaching the present seashore, where they occur widely along 
the beach. Macomas and other sea shells show in a gravel beach at 48 feet. 
As in other localities the amount of drift above the marine terraces 
is small and the soils of the hills, which reach 900 feet within 3 miles of the 
sea, are mainly residual and due to the crumbling of slate. 
A continuous succession of bars and beaches is found at Tourelle 1 
(Plate III B), 5 miles east of Ste. Anne, eleven having been observed 
between 86 and 212 feet. 
Riviere-a-ea-Martre 
To the east of Tourelle relations are similar as far as Cap-au-Renard, 
where the foothills of the Shickshocks approach the present shore. At this 
point the road branches, one branch following the seashore at the foot 
of cliffs, the other, now little used, running inland and climbing the hills 
to 800 feet before descending to Rivi&re-a-la-Martre in the next valley. 
Along the shore road cliffs rise to 330 feet, and evidently any marine 
terraces that may have existed have been destroyed by wave action on the 
present beach. The valleys of the small rivers or creeks give the only 
opportunities for tracing the old water levels. Along rividre & la Martre 
(Marten brook) these are well developed, beginning with the Micmac 
beach at 19 feet and ending at about 200 feet above sea-level. A beach 
at' 130 feet is very pronounced. 
Figuhe 3. Re-entrant forms and V-shaped valleys, rivifere k la Martre. 
Characteristic boulder clay with Laurentian stones is exposed at the 
mouth of the creek, and boulders carried by floating ice are found a little 
above the marine terraces, but on higher ground there is very little drift, 
though a few granites and serpentines from the mountains to the south 
occur occasionally. 
1 French for turret. So called after a very slender stack of sandstone (designated by 
the Geological Survey “pillar’' sandstone) about 25 feet high, 100 yards north of the shore 
at high tide. 
