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use of the works at Kingston mills. This ridge appears to 

 Mr. Burrows to be a continuation of the limestone quarries 

 at Point Henry. It crosses the Montreal road, and, he 

 thinks, extends within a short distance of the sandstone, 

 No. 7, where it suddenly terminates. 



NOTE c. 



Tlje St. Maurice iron works are situated on the riglit bank 

 of the St. Maurice river, about eight miles upwards from 

 its mouth. They are accessible both by land and water 

 but more readily by the former than by the latter. A 

 strong current, occasional shallows, and one small rapid, 

 rendering it necessary that in ascending the river, the oars 

 should be laid aside, and tlic more tedious process of poling 

 had recourse to. The strength of the current, however, is 

 all in favour of descending, and with proper guides, bateaux 

 of five tons transport cast metal, ^c. «cc. to Three Rivers 

 from whence they return to the works emptv, once in the 

 course of the day. All stores, &c. retpiired for the estab- 

 lishment, are transported over land from Three Rivers a 

 distance of eight or nine miles, upon atolerably good and 

 level road, across a country composed of a deep ferruginous 

 sand, bottomed on clay, and consequently presenting a 

 barren aspect. 



Trom this bank of sand the visitor drops suddenly upon 

 these iron works, which consist of one smelting fiiniacc, 

 two forges, one charcoal mill, one saw mill, and one grist 

 mill, with minor workshops. The whole, including the 

 domestic establislmunt of the resident, and the huts of the 

 workmen, presenting the appearance of a small village. 



