S0 Lieut. Baddeley on the geognosy* 
the writer, on the subject in general, and partly owing to the 
short period allotted for observation. This indulgence, it is 
hoped, will be readily granted by the reader, when he is ine 
formed, that it has been written without assistance, and by a 
person, ashe will soou ascertain, totally unpractised in book- 
making. 
As this is considered by the writer merely as a sort of appen- 
dix to the more important and comprehensive reports of Ensign 
Nixon, 66th Regt., Messrs. Bouchette, Hamel and Davis, he 
has omitted as superfluous, most of the distances and courses, 
&c., retaining only the latitudes of those places where he had 
reason to think his observations were correctly made for deter- 
mining them, and referring the reader for the relative position of 
places, to the accompanying plan. 
As this paper will be unaccompanied by any of the Reports 
alluded to above, it becomes necessary to introduce it by a 
rapid sketch of the country it treats of. 
The country through which the following report professes to 
be a geognostical section, is situated at a variable distance of 
from 100 to 200 miles from Quebec, commencing a little west 
of a line due north of that place, and passing through all the 
points of a segment subtending an angle of about 50°, as far 
eastward as the mouth of the Saguenay, which lies 65 leagues 
north-east of that place. The principal topogrophical features 
observed while moving nearly on this segment, are embraced 
in the following description :— 
Lake 
* The term geognosy and its derivatives have been used in this essay 
to imply a knowledge of the names of the rocky constituents &c. whi 
form thecrust of the earth, derived from consulting their mineral con- 
tents, physical structure &c. 
By geology &c., ismeant not only this knowledge, but the still more 
scientific one which points to the relative ages of these rocks, &c. and to 
the probable mannerin which they have been formed. The geogaist in- 
forins us, for instance, that such a rock is a syenite or trap; butitis the 
geologist who explains whether it belongs to the primary or overlying clasa 
&c. The former may collect facts; but it isthe latter who must rea- 
son upon them—no man can hopeto be the second uutil he has become 
the first. We do not stop to inquire if this distinction be correct but rather 
beg that it may be conceded to us on this occasioa, 
