of the Coast of Labrador. 79 
of stone, worn into the most fantastic shapes, in which the 
imagination without great exertion may trace the rude resem- 
blance of birds crocodiles, &e. They sometimes form rings 
six or eight inches in diameter, and three quarters of an inch 
thick. ‘Their great abundance precluded the possibility of 
their being the work of art. 
With respect to the land west of Cape Chudleigh, as it has 
been but once vesited, we cannot expect to learn much about 
it. The mountaius of Torngarsuir (the evil spirit) in lat. 60° 
are described as rugged, barren and black, and containing a 
huge cavern which the heathen Eskimos fable to be 
the habitation of the devil, The rocks further north are 
light coloured but there appear to be no mountains of cone 
siderable height on this part of the coast which is called Une 
guva. Onalmost every part of it fragments of ared jasper 
impregnated with iron, are frequent and in some places hae 
matites and cubical pyrites. It may be worth remark that 
the tides rise here no less than from 40 to 50 feet, while they 
seldom exceed 8 or 10 cn the eastern cost. The current 
sets from west to east round Cape Chudleigh, (Geological 
Transactions, vol. 2.) 
Arr. VII.—Lieut. Baddeley on the geognosy 
of a part of the Saguenay country. 
Tue materials for forming this geognostical essay were 
procuied while attached to an Exploring Party, which left 
Quebec in the summer of 1828, ona journey through the Saguee 
pay Country, to collect information as to its capabilities for sete 
tlement. 
Upon a perusal, it will be found to require much indulgence, 
partly on account of the inexperience and limited information of 
the 
