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sides of the hills, hard-wood is occasionally discovered^ 

 interspersed among other timber. To the westward of 

 this tract the hills become more rocky and barren. This 

 chain of hills are not less than eighteen hundred or two 

 thousand feet above the level of the St. Lawrence, at 

 Quebec, and not distant more than forty or fifty miles from 

 that city. To the south-east of this range of mountains near 

 the small river Ki,a,los,ko,to,so, an extensive valley occurs, 

 but the soil is poor and the timber small. The sides of the 

 hills bounding this valley are full of dangerous chasms 

 rendering their ascent difficult, even to the Indian hunters. 



Between lakes William and the township of Tewksbury, 

 if we except about a mile of swamp, the land is tolerably 

 good and level, but much covered with bowlders : this 

 tract may be considered as a continuation of the upper parts 

 of " Val Cartier." 



The north-east branch of the Jacques Cartier is the 

 boundary of the moderately good land towards the north- 

 east. Several mountains of a conical shape having the 

 appearance of extinct volcanoes are seen in this part of the 

 country, but I am not aware of lava or any vitrified rock 

 having been noticed — when the country becomes more 

 traversed, doubtless important geological discoveries on this 

 subject will be made. 



I The character of the land in the township of Stoneham, 

 may generally be applied to Tewksbury, as far as the point 

 where that township is clipped in by the range of hills 

 which form a part of the great mountain chain. 



I shall now proceed to a description of the small portion 

 of the country that has hitherto been explored lying 

 between Cape Tourmente and the river Sagucnay as far 

 back as lake St. John. Our knowledge of this section is 



