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Very similar conditions exist at Cascapedia station, near the mouth 
of the river of the same name, though no boulder clay was seen. A mile 
west of the river there is a railway gravel pit in river deposits belonging 
to a terrace formed at sea-level. 
Carleton and Noxjvelle 
A range of low mountains runs northeast and southwest along the 
west side of Cascapedia bay at a distance of 2 or 3 miles from the shore, 
and then bends westwards at Carleton, where some work was done. A 
good path leads up Carleton mountain, whose height is given as 1,830 feet, 
the lower part being of slate and the highest point consisting of weathered 
diabase or porphyrite. A certain amount of drift was seen up to about 
1,200 feet, where boulders of a basic eruptive occur resting on the slate. 
Whether these are ice transported is uncertain, since they may have come 
from the highest summit, perhaps a mile to the east, though there is a 
slight depression between. If they were ice-borne this is the highest 
point at which glacial work has been found on the southern side of Gaspe. 
No granites, serpentines, or hornblende schists, such as might have come 
from the Shickshocks, were seen; and probably these mountains were 
never crossed by a glacier moving southwards. 
Terraces occur at 48, 77, and about 175 feet near Carleton; and a 
mile west of the village a fine kamo of gravel and boulders overlies a boulder 
conglomerate on the railway, which is close to the seashore. This massive 
kame was, probably, built by the Chaleur ice lobe at some stage in its 
recession. 
A few miles west, near Nouvelle, there is another striking kame along 
the road just north of the railway and on a terrace are boulders of amygdaloid, 
porphyrite, and green schist as well as of red sandstone and conglo- 
merate, probably brought from the west by the Chaleur ice lobe. 
On the road south over the hills to the Dalhousie ferry is widespread 
boulder clay with striated stones, all apparently local, and similar boulder 
clay occurs on the New Brunswick side of the bay. 
The only notable point on the road westwards towards Matapedia 
was the finding, near Escuminac, of a large boulder of limestone conglo- 
merate, Very like rocks in place near Metis on the north coast of Gaspe; 
and near Gross point opposite Campbellton of a block of crystalline 
limestone suggesting the Grenville limestones. 
Matapedia Valley 
The valley of Matapedia river is fairly well graded, having a fall of 
520 feet between Matapedia lake, which may be considered its headwaters, 
and its junction with Restigouche river, near sea-level, a distance of 53 
miles, about 10 feet per mile. Its lower end has been cut down canyon-like 
through a tableland having an average elevation of about 1,000 feet. 
It provides the lowest pass between Notre-Dame and Shickshock mountains 
and is considered the western boundary of Gaspe peninsula. 
That it was once occupied by a lobe of the. Labrador ice-sheet is 
proved by the presence along the river near its junction with the Resti- 
gouche of boulders and pebbles of granite and gneiss of Laurentian appear- 
ance, of limestone conglomerate, and of a fine-grained quartz conglomerate 
not known to occur this side of Savaboc near the St. Lawrence watershed. 
