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pierced by a wave-formed tunnel, has vertical or even overhanging walls 
and is the most striking bit of scenery on the coast. Its special features 
and the geology of the region around have been carefully studied and 
admirably described by Clarke 1 . 
Port Daniel 
Southwest from Percd the country is mostly flat with marine plains 
and terraces, but near Gascons there are hills presenting more variety. 
Terraces w'ere found at 95 and 150 feet, and boulder clay occurs as the 
road ascends from the creek. The hills, which reach about 300 feet along 
the road to Port Daniel, were crossed by ice from the interior, which left 
morainic material including many boulders of Archsean-looking schists of 
various kinds, especially hornblendic. Similar schists occur in place on 
mount Albert in the Shickshocks, 80 miles to the northwest. Serpentine 
blocks may have come from the same region and coarse granites may have 
been brought from Tabletop. A little boulder clay rests on steeply tilted 
grey-brown limestone and contains well striated stones. 
Similar erratics are found near Port Daniel and in hills beyond on 
the way to Marcil, and striae having the direction southeast are reported 
by Chalmers 2 . 
Serpentine is reported 4 or 5 miles north of Port Daniel and that 
asbestos was mined there for a few years. It is possible, therefore, that 
some of the drift boulders mentioned may have a nearby source instead 
of coming from the distant mountains. 
Boulders of a coarse conglomerate like that of the Cobalt series, and 
quartzites of two kinds, should be mentioned as occurring with the rocks 
just referred to as probably coming from the Shickshocks. It is evident 
that our knowledge of the older rocks of the interior is quite imperfect, 
and it may be that features of both geologic and economic interest remain 
to be discovered. 
Southwest of Marcil there are low plains and a terrace at 77 feet, as 
one approaches St. Godfroi. A few boulders of green schist and of quartz- 
ite show that ice from the interior passed over it. 
New Richmond 
The next point examined was New Richmond on Little Cascapedia 
river, where the country is once more hilly. 
A shore cliff show's blue till with well striated boulders of limestone 
and schist, and a road crossing the river running east gives outcrops of 
similar till with some granites and porphyrites as well as the rocks men- 
tioned. Stone heaps on the hills at 360 to 380 feet show similar boulders 
along with local sandstones and conglomerates; and it is evident that the 
region has been glaciated by ice from the north. 
Terraces are found at 37, 50, and 185 feet. As might be expected 
no more Laurentian-looking boulders are seen on the terraces after passing 
from shores facing the gulf of St. Lawrence to those of Chaleur bay. 3 
1 Twelfth Inter. Geol. Gong,, Guide Book No. I, pt. I, p. 95, etc. 
2 Geol. Surv., Can., vol. II, 1886, p. 14 M. 
3 Goldthwait has found shells here 40 feet above the sea but no beaches above 75 feet. 
Twelfth Inter. Geol. Cong., Guide Book No. I, pt. I, p. 120. 
