10 On the Geographi/ and Geology 



but only two deep. Its shoves are rocky, but high on the northern 

 half only, that being granite. Its north cape is a massive and 

 lofty blufF of rock. It is followed by a second bay, three and a 

 half miles across, with very high angles, and an elevated interior, 

 but fronted with beaches of sand and beds of gravel. Its north 

 point has a rocky isle in front. 



Huggewong Bay (or Hoguart, as named in the French maps) 

 now succeeds ; it is 10 or 12 miles across at its mouth; the south 

 side being eight miles long, and trending north-east, while the 

 north side, running east, is about one-third of that length. Both 

 meet the bottom of the bay nearly at right angles. Their immediate 

 shores, except in certain places, rise suddenly in round-backed 

 steep hills, precipitous and bold in parts, and from 400 to 600 

 feet high, with narrow woody dells between. Along the outer half 

 of the south side, shingle beaches are common, many feet high, 

 with extensive deposits behind them, of large and small bowlders 

 of the rock of the district, imbedded in sand, confusedly and in 

 horizontal layers. These banks, from 10 to 30 feet high, rest on 

 the base of the hills, and sometimes extend inland a quarter of a 

 mile. 



The Montreal River, (whose vicinity several years ago was ex- 

 amined in search of copper, by order of an English Mining Com- 

 pany,) enters Huggewong Bay, in the middle of the south side, 

 in a cove guarded by two narrow but high and naked bluffs, the 

 north-eastern one being connected by sand banks to the main. 

 This river is 150 feet across at the mouth, and issues with a cur- 

 rent of three and a half miles per hour, from among beds of sand 

 and gravel, which are high on the northern side only, and pass 

 half a mile into the country. At one third of a mile from the 

 lake, there is a fall 10 feet high, among dark overhanging rocks, 

 n a hollow, between two conical hills. 



The bottom of Huggewong Bay is faced with sand banks, 

 which retire a mile or two inland in successive embankments. 

 Besides two smaller streams, it affords an outlet to the River Hug- 

 gewong, which is of considerable size, and near the lake, runs 

 through low woods, but farther in the interior it occupies the 



