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conical mountain plainly visible from Lake Memphre- 

 magog. On the top of the mountain which is small but 

 flat there is a pond from fifteen to twenty rods in diameter. 



In the neighbourhood there is a hill with a precipitous 

 descent, from the summit of which a column of dense smoke 

 is frequently seen to issue, about one foot in diameter. — 

 One man got a few years ago, between thirty and forty 

 pounds of pure lead, (sulphuret of lead,) in one morning 

 from the mine described." — Wilcox. 



" On an estiite belonging to the Seminary of Quebec in 

 the Bay of St. Paul, a lead mine was discovered some years 

 ago. The veins whicli have been traced are slight, but 

 two Germans who were brought over to the country on 

 account of like discoveries in the upper country, examined 

 this and thought it worth the working." — Gen. Murray's 

 Report. 



I have seen this lead ; it is an argentiferous galena, I 

 believe, and occurs in veins traversing a white marble, 

 associated with chlorophanc of a beautiful green colour. 

 Large masses of this marble detached, but of an angular 

 form, are found lying at the foot of the primary range, on 

 the right bank of the Goulfre river at St. Paul's Bay. — 

 These masses leave specks of galena disseminated in small 

 quantity, and are traversed by hair veins of the same. The 

 chl(>ro[)hane appears to be embedded in the marble in large 

 distinct masses. We ascended the hill in search of the 

 vein or bed, but found nothing but bare and whitened 

 surfaces of primary rocks. — (Sec page H'2, '_M vol. of the 

 Society's Transactions.) 



