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deep only a short distance of f)f shore, The south shore has a much more 
gentle slope with extensile shoals urunning out a long distance into the 
coperatively war* and sfeaUftw waters <bf tge Eaie des Ohaleurs. 
Small pity for him, he sailed away 
From a leaking ship in Ohaleurs bay 
He sailed away from a sinking wreck 
With his own towns people on her deck 
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Old Floyd Ireson, for his herd heart 
Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart 
By the women of Marblehead 
Topographically, most of the peninsula is an elevated plateau ranging 
in altitude from 800 to 1500 feet. This is ddeply and roughly cut by 
the hundreds of salmon and trout filled wrvers and brooks, the cold and 
limpid waters of which begun their process of erosion many centuries 
ago, and the end is not yet. 
Lengthwise through this plateap at a distance ranging from 12 to 
2o miles from the St. Lawrence runs the crest of the Shickshodk Mts. 
(formerly known as the Hotre Lame Mts.). This range forms a gigantic 
backbone through the peninsula and in a general way represents the 
height of land and the dividing line between the St. Lawrence and the 
Ohaleurs water-sheds. Exceptions to this statement will be noted in the 
case of the Gap O^at and the Ste. Anne rivers, both of which rise on 
the south side of the range and flow northward into the St. Lawrence. 
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The Explanation of this, as geven bygeologists, is that the rivers-atsed 
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QuXtL dated the mountains, the latter hav^ing been produced by a slow upthrust 
which was not sufficiently rapid to prevent the rivers maintaining 
their channels during the uplift. 
Geologically, the crest of the main range of the Shickshocks is 
pre-cambrian for a varying width of 3 to 9 miles; nothh of this to the 
St. Lawrence is a broad Cambrian area, and to the southward to the 
