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in a ridge, much like a rampart. Magnificent veins may be seen 

 upon any of these lakes. 



Upon Junior stream large boulders of granite occupy the bed so 

 much that it is difficult to manage a heavily loaded canoe among 

 them. Two interesting boulders attracted our attention, as they 

 had been worn into the shape of an hour glass. We suppose the 

 neck of the stone was worn most because the strongest currents 

 chiefly exert their powers at that altitude. As is common to almost 

 every thoroughfare, so here on Junior stream, the upper part is 

 very ston}' with quick water, and the lower part with very deep 

 water and marshy banks, insomuch that chiefly sedges grew upon 

 them ; while the surface of the water abounds in white and j-ellow 

 water lilies and pond weed. At the mouth of the stream the land 

 is a little higher, a coarse beach separating the thoroughfare from 

 Grand Lake, in which we found boulders of metalliferous trap, py- 

 rites, conglomerate, granite, clay slate and schists. 



The character of the shores of both expansions of Grand or Wit- 

 teguerguagum, Pocumpus and Sysladobsis lakes is uniform and 

 may be described as a whole. The immediate shore is composed 

 of angular blocks of granite, often of mammoth dimensions, with 

 scarcely any soil over them. They are covered with moss, and the 

 trees of the forest shoot down their roots among them with difli- 

 culty. The shores rise up gradually to hills and mountains, without 

 ' a single clearing to give evidence of civilization. But no ledges 

 appear, although their fragments are so common. These boulders 

 often lie in the lakes away from the shores, and may project above 

 the surface. One such in Sysladobsis lake must weigh many hun- 

 dred tons. Where the summits of the boulders just come to the 

 surface they render the navigation difiicult. It is extremely rare 

 to see any rock represented among the boulders upon these lakes, 

 except the angular granitic fragments. Most of them are of the 

 porphyritic variety. 



On Sysladobsis lake may be seen the finest views of any of the 

 western Schoodic lakes. That part which lies in No. 5 is correctly 

 represented upon the County map, showing the "Big island" at 

 the south end. That part of the lake which lies in No. 4 has a due 

 north and south course, its northern extremity being only half a 

 mile distant from Bottle lake. The Chain lakes in 4 and 6 are 

 mostly small and swampy, except a single ledge of granite on the 

 upper or third Chain lake, which is the largest of the three. 



