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Salt springs, as has been said, are not abundant, nor 

 have any been observed, as we think, at such heights as 

 to preclude the possibilift/ of their having their origin in 

 the St. Lawrence. It must not be omitted to mention, 

 however, that there is a close association in nature between 

 sulphuretted and saline waters. 



The salt and sulphurised waters appear to spring from 

 the plastic clay before mentioned, while the chalybeates 

 usually traverse the surface of the ground. 



Of the mineral springs we shall soon have an analysis by 

 an able hand, which, if it shall not give us the exact 

 proportion, in which their several constituents enter, (a 

 manipulation requiring considerable labour and skill) will 

 at least make us acquainted with those constituents. 



While at Mr. Chaperon's, we visited two sets of sulphur- 

 etted waters occiu-ring on opposite sides of the bay, in low 

 swampy ground, and near, or at the foot of the carboniferous 

 limestone before mentioned. 



On the western side of the bay, one of these springs was 

 observed to enter into water of a remarkable blackness, 

 and this water was observed in one or tv.-o other places. — 

 Upon digging in several places a black gritty substance 

 was thrown up, which bore a strong resemblance to a 

 mixture of sand and lignite, and the occurrence of much 

 rotten wood, appeared to account for the presence of the 

 latter. However, upon exposing it to heat it neither formed 

 a cinder nor gave out any inflammable gas, but appears 

 to be composed almost entirely of common sand. In a wet 

 state the sand possessed almost the inky blackness of the 

 water. We feel much inclined to think that the spring 

 here, containing sulphuretted hydrogen, meets with other 

 waters containing lead antimony, or some other metallic 



