Geognosy of St. Paul's Bar). 8T 



b&s been clouded and gloomy, particuhirly west and east, 

 and whenever it cleared up (which was very seldom) it 

 always began to darken from thence." 



The existence of iron mines in the rear of St. Paul's Bay> 

 was known in the time of Charlevoix ; but the public is in 

 possession of few facts respecting them, up to the present 

 day. In the summer of 1827, the Surveyor General 

 reported favourably of them, after a pei-sonal inspection. 

 And upon our return from the Saguenay country last year, 

 we visited these mines at the request of Mr. Andrew Stuart, 

 (one of the Commissioners for exploring unsettled lands,) 

 the report respecting which may be seen in the Essay before 

 alluded to. On our departure, instructions were left for 

 further exploring these mines, and in consequence, very 

 favourable reports were received during the following 

 winter. It was to test the truth of these reports, and to 

 make additional researches, that having finished our obser- 

 vations at St. Paul's Bay, Me conmienccd a tour of the 

 valley. Ascending, as before, on the western shore of the 

 Gouffre, we shortly reached a saw mill, situated at the 

 foot of a fall occasioned by a branch of the river tumbling 

 over the carboniferous liuicstonc, (lipping to the eastward. 

 Plastic clay was observed to be in contact with the limestone, 

 and the latter is known to succeed to primary fonnations 

 here.* 



In a <lee[) section of the plastic clay near at hand, 

 sulphuretted water was seen oozing from it. It is worthy of 



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 •fttU«r t'uruiftlioii. 



