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the heavier beds and more compact ones occupied the lower portion of 
the outcrop. 
The following view of the quarry reproduced from a pen and ink 
sketch by Miss A. M. Living, of our club, gives a good general idea of 
the upper portion of the quarry, with some of the large blocks of quar- 
ried limestone to be taken down to their destination, the Soulanges 
Canal. 
Along the western extremity of the quarry, large blocks of quarried 
and dressed limestone had been piled up and were examined, show- 
ing the character of the limestone, thickness of the beds and mode of 
occurrence. It was evident that a quarry similar to those of central 
Ontario, from which the material was obtained for the construction of 
the Trent Valley Canal, had been opened at Rockland, and that the 
rock was of superior quality. Some of the upper beds of the quarry- 
were apparently more easily shattered, but the hard compact and heavy 
bedded strata of the lower two-thirds will no doubt afford excellent 
blocks for the canal, 
Through the kindness and courtesy of Mr. Stewart, the writer has 
been furnished with information on the character of the limestones of 
the new Rockland quarries. The result of examinations and tests 
