. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. EARLY DEVONIC HISTORY OF NEW YORK AND EASTERN NORTH AMERICA 55 festy's brook and beyond to the headland which bounds the South cove, two miles away, Cape Blanc or Whitehead, another vertical mass of lime- stones over the edges of which the red strata of the Bonaventure conglom- erate have been laid flat. To the north of Mt Joli and the beach of the North cove, begin the Murailles, the high rocky sea wall which fronts the Malbay, rising with a deepl)' notched sky line in grassy and deeply furrowed slopes and falling off sheer to the wate
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. EARLY DEVONIC HISTORY OF NEW YORK AND EASTERN NORTH AMERICA 55 festy's brook and beyond to the headland which bounds the South cove, two miles away, Cape Blanc or Whitehead, another vertical mass of lime- stones over the edges of which the red strata of the Bonaventure conglom- erate have been laid flat. To the north of Mt Joli and the beach of the North cove, begin the Murailles, the high rocky sea wall which fronts the Malbay, rising with a deepl)' notched sky line in grassy and deeply furrowed slopes and falling off sheer to the water's edge ; the tattered remains of a mountain which stretched away into Malbay but has yielded its better part to the restless tooth of the sea. The effect on the landscape of this ragged escarpment is very strik- ing but its impressiveness is appreciated best onh' from the sea, from which its rock)- front is alone approachable. At the north end of the North coA'e the escarpment rises abruptly in the Qi calcareous and arenaceous shales of Cape Barre; thence north- ward framing the angular recesses beaten out by the sea, the cliff becomes even higher till the line- reaches Red peak at the north and falls off abruptly into the East face of Mt joii gorge of the Grande Coupe. Except for Cape Barre these rocks are brilliantly tinted with reds and yellows and, we shall presently observe, were a part of the tinted strata comprising the Perce rock, though here the angle of their slope is greatly altered and nearly conforms to the slopes of the mountain surface. All these bold contours are brought closely together so that in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State Museum. Albany : University of the State of New York
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