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In general very little evidence of ice action was found along this 
northeastward fronting coast of Gaspe, except a few Laurentian boulders 
at low levels, evidently ice-rafted from the Labrador side of the gulf of 
St. Lawrence. 
Fox River to Cape Gaspe 
There are two roads to cape Gaspe from Fox River, one southwest 
over the hills, the other southeast along the shore. Going southwestward 
along the valley of the river, about 1$ miles from the sea, strise running in 
a northeast direction are found on hard layers in slate, and at about 2 miles 
boulder clay occurs, but so far as seen without foreign boulders. The 
lowest terrace extends to this point, and beyond it the plain rises gently 
for 2 miles to an escarpment of sandstone with some slate, capped by lime- 
stone (Plate V B), probably of Devonian age. 
The elevations along the road to the southwest run from 415 feet 
to 724 feet and represent the main ridge of the Shickshocks, here trending- 
southeast. Boulders and pebbles of schist conglomerate and of green 
schist occur on the highland. They have the appearance of Precambrian 
rocks and no known source can be assigned to them except that they must 
come from the interior. 
Following the shore road southeast of Fox River there are wide marine 
terraces occupied by farms as far as cap des Rosiers where the plain has a 
width of 3 or 4 miles with terraces at 45, 56, and 103 feet, reaching the foot 
of the escarpment. Ascending the steep front of the escarpment there are 
two other probable sea-levels at 139 and 157 feet. Large ice-rafted Laur- 
entian boulders are scattered over the lower terraces. 
The road south crosses a depression in the ridge at levels from 350 to 
370 feet, and on the way up, at about 320 feet, boulder clay was found 
containing blocks of sandstone and limestone as well as fragments of 
hornblende schist. 
Southeast of the road the escarpment continues for 4 miles as a series 
of bold and sometimes overhanging cliffs ending in cape Gaspe. The 
peninsula is very narrow and rugged and rises in places 500 feet or more 
above the sea. The lighthouse at the end is 280 feet above the sea and 
the cliffs to the north are probably 100 feet higher. 
The limestone forming the cliffs dips steeply to the southwest. Sand- 
stone boulders scattered over it were evidently brought by ice from the 
Devonian sandstones a few miles to the northwest. 
The solid geology of the Fori 11 on, as this narrow ridge is called, has 
been worked out and excellently described by Clarke. 1 
General Features oe the North Coast 
It was thought by Bell and Chalmers that land ice had done no work 
in this region, Bell stating that for 100 miles on the north shore of Gaspe 
the surface consists of decomposed rock and is unglaciated 2 ; and Chalmers 
claims that from Fox River to Ste. Anne-des-Monts there is no evidence 
of glaciation except boulders brought by floating ice. 3 
1 Twelfth Inter. Geol. Cong., Guide Book No. I, pt. I, p. 104. 
2 Can. Nat., vol. VIII, first series, p. 262. 
3 Geol. Surv., Can., vol. XVI, 1904, pp. 253-4. 
