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On the southwest side of the bay, and on the shore of Gaspe basin 
also, boulder clay is rather common, enclosing only local stones except for 
some hornblende schists. Strise were found on sandstone on the pro- 
montory between the two bays, running southwest, as if the local glacier 
coming down the Dartmouth valley had spread westwards. 
The hill behind the village of Gaspe rises to 477 feet and shows no 
evidence of ice action, the boulders upon it seeming entirely local. Its 
summit may have risen above the glacier, which does not seem to have 
been very thick. 
Terraces, usually indistinct, occur at 45, 70, and 180 feet. One or 
two small fragments of granite or gneiss were found, perhaps rafted round 
from the Labrador coast when the sea stood higher. Both Chalmers and 
Fairchild report a marine level at 235 or 240 feet, but this was not observed 
by the writer, perhaps because not sufficiently looked for. 
The glaciers coming down the Dartmouth and York valleys and com- 
bining in the basin of Gaspe bay, as suggested by Chalmers, must have been 
among the most important of the local glaciers or ice-sheets radiating from 
the mountains, and their effects are more readily recognized than those of 
the northern glaciers mentioned before. 
Roc her Perce 
No work was done between Gaspe Basin and Corner of the Beach, 
20 miles to the south. The “beach” (Grande Gihve) is an old gravel bar 
rising 10 feet above high tide and running 4 miles south from Barachois 
(said to be an Indian term for a gravel bar). It suggests bars like that on 
which Fox River is built on the northwest side of Gaspe, but is distinctly 
lower than the Micmac beach of Goldthwait, which seems confined to the 
north coast. 
From Corner of the Beach a road follows the shore southeastward to 
Perc6, rising on terraces up to 225 or 230 feet, and then passing over hills. 
Blocks of granite and gneiss were seen above this, and a gneiss boulder 3 
feet long was observed at 262 feet above the sea, indicating that floating 
ice must have reached this level, which is about 20 feet above the highest 
marine terrace indicated by Chalmers and Fairchild 1 . 
Except a little boulder clay on the road southwest of Perce no evidence 
of glacial action was seen, and the mountain, having an elevation of 1,230 
feet as shown on the map, must have risen above the ice. 
On Bonaventure island, 2 miles to the southeast, a surface of conglo- 
merate shows striae running north 60 degrees east, perhaps caused by the 
northward sweep of the Chaleur lobe of the great ice-sheet. 
Terraces are indistinct on the island, probably because the lower parts 
on which they would be impressed were sheltered from wave action by 
the high ground facing the sea; but ice-borne boulders were found at 
several places, the highest being a block of gneiss at 295 feet, which is well 
above the old marine level as determined by Fairchild. It may have been 
left by the Chaleur ice lobe just referred to. 
The Perce region, projecting into the stormy gulf of St. Lawrence, 
shows the effects of modern wave work in magnificent cliffs, and the extra- 
ordinary stack, Perc6 rock (rocher Perc4) (Plate II A), from which the 
name of the village is derived. This narrow island, 288 feet high and 
1 “Post-glacial Uplift of Northeastern America”, p. 217. 
