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A small remnant occurs along the beach to the northwest of the 
wharf at pointe l’Enfer. Here the younger Silurian strata stand vertical 
and over their jagged edges lies unconformably a basal Bonaventure 
conglomerate in which some of the limestone blocks are 4 feet across. 
This material lies in a Palaeozoic hollow, and another outcrop of the same 
valley is seen along the northbound wagon road beginning in the King’s 
road. It is the Bonaventure formation that has preserved this ancient 
.topography. 
One of the most interesting remnants of the Bonaventure formation 
is seen in Harrington cove. It has a sea face of about 400 feet across 
and pitches steeply down the cliff in a late Devonian valley that goes out 
to sea. The Bonaventure here lies unconformably upon the steeply 
inclined Silurian, and the very coarse basal conglomerate has numerous 
large blocks of the Crotalocrinus limestone, one of which measures 15 by 
8 by 5 feet. The material resembles that of a talus in front of a cliff, 
or of a rock talus passing down a small valley. 
East of Chouinard brook, to the Stricklandinia knobbly limestone, 
the high Silurian cliffs are overlain unconformably by the Bonaventure, 
here a limestone conglomerate about 50 feet thick, in which the subangular 
pieces are of a few inches in length. It dips to the west. The deep red 
colour of this conglomerate has leached down over the underlying rocks. 
PLEISTOCENE MARINE TERRACE AND PILLS 
Little Port Daniel river terminates in a tidal flat, faced along the 
seashore by a high- tide beach of pebbles and sand over which the King’s 
road is laid. On this beach is situated a lumber mill. Along the south- 
western side of the tidal flat, on the Herbert Sweetman farm, are seen 
two fill terraces, the lower one at about 20 feet and the higher one at 
about 30 feet above mean sea-level. On the eastern side of the tidal 
flat and just beyond the railway is a fill terrace rising to about 35 feet 
above sea-level. 
A series of fill terraces may be seen inland along the last of the rapid- 
running waters of North river before it enters the barrachois. The first 
and widest terrace begins 3 to 4 feet above the summer level of the river 
and rises to about 10 feet, where there is a cliff 15 feet high. The second 
terrace rises about 5 feet, backed by a cliff about 30 feet high. The third 
terrace is about 50 feet above the river, with a cliff of some 8 feet, and 
the fourth, almost unrecognizable terrace stands at about 60 feet. 
Along the centre of anse a,ux Gascons there is a Pleistocene marine 
blue clay with a thickness of about 10 feet, in a sea-cliff beginning at 
high-water level. It has an abundance of the short-shelled variety of Mya 
arenaria so characteristic of cold-water marine Pleistocene clays. No 
Saxicava was seen. 
All along the coast of anse aux Gascons, marine terraces cut into 
Silurian strata are conspicuous. The lowest terrace is the widest one and 
is now being eaten into by the sea. Toward the sea, its plane is from 20 
to 25 feet above sea-level, and inland it rises to about 30 to 35 feet. This 
terrace is best developed on either side of the east horn of the cove, and is 
backed by a cliff that is about 12 feet high. 
