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liiglily favourable one for working in. A few hundred 

 yani? of land carriage would bring it to the waters edge, from 

 whence it might be transported down the Gannanoqui to 

 the Furnace Falls, at which place every facility offers Itself 

 as regards water, wood, limestone and sandstone, for the 

 establishment of Iron Works. By the construction of one, 

 or at most two locks, the iron fabricated might be trans- 

 ported by water through the V^'hite Fish River into tlie 

 Kideau Canal, below Jones' Falls. Nor if it were desirable 

 Is the water communication with the St. Lawrence below 

 the falls of difficult attainment — two or at most three locks 

 would effect this also. 



I propose to close this note with some observations 

 upon the rocks and minerals met with in ascending the 

 Gannanoqui. 



The Gannanocjui enters the St. Lawrence from the north- 

 ward aljout twenty-one miles below Kingston. Advantage 

 has been taken of ja fall at its mouth* to establish saw 

 and grist mills, which from their favorable position, great 

 popularity of their owner and the liberal expenditure upon 

 tliem of a large capital, are considered to be the uiost 

 flouri-hitig works of the kind in the Upper Province. 



U|)on landing on tbe right bank of the (iannanocjui, at 

 its mouth, a cunglumerate was hrst observed, which was 

 supj)0^c■d to belong to the old red sandstone formation, that 

 rock having been subsccjuently noticed forming a preci- 

 pitous bank towards the St. Lawrence on the left shore of 

 the (jannanocjui. This conglomerate however, wjis not 

 parlicuh'rly observed. The old red sandstone, as it is 

 presumed to be, has the appearance of being horizontally 



* About firici-n l<<:l liigli. 



