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IN a letter which I have just received from Dr. John M. Clarke, director of the State Museum at Albany, N.Y., he writes:—“You may be interested to know that at my urgent suggestion the Geographic Board of the Province of Quebec have adopted the name ‘Hugh Miller Cliffs’ for the wonderful Old Red Sandstone fish-beds which line Scaumenac Bay on the Bay Chaleur, near the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I think there is no place in the world where the fishes Hugh Miller described are so abundant. It is a little odd that the devout French Catholics of P. Quebec should consent to this naming of their scenery after a Scotch Presbyterian, but the cliffs look across the bay from French Quebec to Scotch New Brunswick!”
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GEIKIE, A. A Canadian Memorial to Hugh Miller. Nature 95, 479 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095479b0
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