Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Notary of Grand Pré A Historic Tale of Acadia
Seen at low water, clean, tide-washed new red sandstone forms the base. Resting on this is a thick stratum of amygdaloid trap, veined with tinted gypsum and dotted with silicates of great variety and beauty, among which may be found chalcedony, jasper, opal, agate and other precious 'stones. Supported upon this gem-bespangled foundation, rises erect nearly two hundred feet of dark green crystalline, columnar, basaltic trap, all crowned with shrubbery and evergreen woodsof ancient growth, the whole cliff resembling ruins of some colossal art structure adorned by time and decorated by decay.
This majestic bluff is wholly, except the sand stone base, of volcanic origin, being the eastern extremity of a long ridge of trappean rock formed by an ancient current of molten stone or lava, erupted through the earth's crust and ?ow ing over and cooling upon the red sandstone sea bottom, on which the whole ridge now rests.
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