. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. EARLY DEVONIC HISTORY OF NEW YORK AND EASTERN NORTH AMERICA 25 of the serenest and most contented of homes ; their farms, pitched at angles of twenty to thirty degrees to the water, yield their slender increase, the crest of spruce and fir adds softness and beauty to every contour. From these homes the eye sweeps over a magnificent stretch of bay and sea and never tires at the infinitude of variety in the scene. The observer seems to view the panorama spread before him as do the sea mews wending their way from their roost on the Bon Ami
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. EARLY DEVONIC HISTORY OF NEW YORK AND EASTERN NORTH AMERICA 25 of the serenest and most contented of homes ; their farms, pitched at angles of twenty to thirty degrees to the water, yield their slender increase, the crest of spruce and fir adds softness and beauty to every contour. From these homes the eye sweeps over a magnificent stretch of bay and sea and never tires at the infinitude of variety in the scene. The observer seems to view the panorama spread before him as do the sea mews wending their way from their roost on the Bon Ami cliffs to the feeding grounds in the barachois at Douglastown. The whole stretch of Gaspe bay lies before the eye from the hillside galleries. Far away at the west are the rounded sandstone mountains of Gaspe Basin, besmudged and screened by the smoke clouds from the lumber mills at the great sand bar. Here the panorama begins and under the cir- cling eye pass in due succession the low cliffs of Douglas- town, its sand bars, its tickle and Ijara- chois lying low to the water line, the reddish timbered hills of Bois Brule and the crimson sea wall of sandstone running on east- ward to Point St Peter, the end of the south shore save Looking south from Shiphead at the entrance of Gaspe bay; showing Point St Peter, 10 for the little ligl^ht- miles, Honaventure island and Perce mountain, iSmiles house crowned Plateau Island at its tip. Above these lower hights of the foreground rise at the east the graceful curves of majestic Perce mountain, 24 miles away as the cormorant flies, crowned at the summit with 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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