Geognosy of St. Pauls Bay. 83 



if .iny were wanting, of its being primary. 



In our Goognostical Essay on a portion of the Saguenay 

 country, &c. just referred to, allusion has been frequently 

 made to the deeply decomposed surface of these rocks, by 

 Avhich they have acquired their remarkably ^vhitened aspect. 

 In this therefore u'c will pass it over, as well as other facts 

 therein stated, our object being to confine ourselves almost 

 entirely to any uctv matter collected during our second visit 

 to St. Paul's Bay, in the Spring of 1829, leaving the first 

 report to sj)eak for itself. 



On our former visit to this place, Ave obtained from Mr. 

 Gagnon, priest, some interesting information respecting a 

 volcanic eru[)tion which he appears to have witnessed at 

 the latter end of the year 1/01. In the account of this 

 event given in the Geognostical Report, an error or two 

 appears, Avhich we here correct; it was in the month of 

 December and not October that this phenomenon was 

 observed. Also for 1 1 " au dcssous du thcrmomctre de 

 Reaunuir, (plus 7J "f Fahr.) read 11® au dessus, &c. 

 (plus 5G. 7- of Fahr.) Neither did the 6th of December, 

 of that year, fall on Saturday, but on Tuesday, as ajipears 

 from the following extract from the journals of the perioil.* 



Kj: tract of ti Letter from St. Paul\'> Bay, dated Xbtfi 



Dcccinher, 1/91. 

 " On Tuesday, the Gth instant, about half after seven 

 o'clock in the evening, wc had one of the most violent 



• Tlif [iriii(etl Ifltcr wa» riglitly copied from llie originiil ni:iiiiiM:ript, 

 but hariiii; Im-pii wriltj-ii by on old K<'n(loinnii, it coiitniiDi a Omv dlNrropon- 

 cif*, ori;;lii:iliii){ ill lliL- failliri! of liit iiiciiKiry, lull wliirli di-diitl ii<itliiii|f 

 from (Ik* nrciiriii-y <>r llio frkKOtitial I'urtn. lit* rdrii'ftcd tlio tfiii|ii-i'ii(iirn 

 btui»rtr ii|>un our x-coiid visit. In <>ii<<'i'liig llimi' corrccliKim in llio crratu 

 lu till' firal viiluiiit) ol' lliCKi^ Triiii^iit lioii>._ u iinml iiIikiiiiI liliiiidrr liaii lit'oii 

 in««l(>, wliirh our alxii-iii'i- from Qimlicr prevt-tilfd (lit* Mi|t|irf«*ioii uf°. 



