68 The Ottawa Naturalist. [June 



Gaspi In the eastern part of the province of Quebec marl has 



Matane been reported as occurring on the south side of the St, 



Lawrence at a point about five miles below the mouth of the 

 Matane river. The deposit extends over an area of 60 to 70 

 acres and has a depth of one to two feet, and another deposit 

 occurs at the upper end of the lower Metis lake, the extent of 

 which has not been stated. 



In the peninsula of Gasp6 several important deposits of this 



substance are found, especially along the north side of the Bay 



des Chaleurs. All of these are but a short distance 



Bay des 



Chaleurs from the line of railway running from Metapedia to 

 Paspebiac Among localities in this area may be mentioned 

 several lake bottoms lying to the north of the village of New 

 New Carlisle Carlisle and in a narrow valley about two miles distant 

 from this place, in all of which and around their margins the marl 

 occurs with a depth of from one to six feet. Further west it is 

 also found in lake bottoms a short distance north of the village 

 New Richmond of New Richmond near the Great Cascapedia river, 

 Blue Lai!cs and in what are known as the Blue lakes to the west 

 of that stream, the bottoms of which are apparently filled with 

 this substance. The depth and extent have not been determined, 

 though the quantity appears to be considerable. The latter place 

 is in the Irish settlement. 



Anticosti. 

 On Anticosti island deposits of excellent marl were reported 

 by Mr. James Richardson from his exploration of this area in 

 1856, as occurring at several widely separated points. He states 

 that " the bottoms of all the lakes and small ponds examined, 

 with the exception of such as were surrounded by peat, were 

 more or less covered with it. Marl lake at the northwest extre- 

 mity of the island near the West point lighthouse, showed a 

 deposit of about 90 acres, with a considerable thickness, which 

 however was not definitely ascertained, and the brook which 

 empties this lake carries down with it to the shore a large 

 quantity of marl as a sediment where it was spread out along the 

 beach for a considerable space." 



Another locality noted was about three miles west of South-west 

 Point, where marl was observed along the bank of a brook and 



