88 Lieut. Baddeley on the geognosy 
up, the wild oats grow so profusely that they almost appear to 
be sown by man. A larger bay a little farther on is what is 
called Moulin a Baude; it isabout one hundred and fifty or two 
hundred yards deep ; and at its bottom is the bed of marble. 
This bed is nearly vertical, rising within view to the top of 
the bank, which is here scantily wooded and about one hundred 
and fifty feet high, ascending at anangle of about 70°. The 
direction of the bed is nearly N..(NW ?) ; the breadth along 
its whole exposure varies from six to eight or nine feet, disap- 
pearing under ground without diminution. In some parts it is 
interlaced by the adjacent strata, (gneiss), but it is generally 
pure and solid. A small stream falling down the bank has inter- 
sected it, and disengaged a large block or two which have been 
exposed to the water and frost; they do not appear to have 
been much affected by this.exposure ; indeed they have resisted 
it exceedingly well. Supplies of many thousand tons might be 
obtained at a trifling expense. As a statuary marble it will 
be very valuable, for it is, generally speaking, of a pure white 
colour, although to the depth of a few inches from the ad- 
jacent strata it is often tinged green, and in a few parts of 
the mass there is a red tinge(*). This muddy bay is dry at 
low water, affords a protected harbour, and admits at high 
water vessels drawing six or eight feet. A vessel of the former 
draught might indeed touch the bed itself with its keel. The 
entrance from the St. Lawrence is not difficult. It isnot more 
than forty-eight hours’ sail from Quebec with a light fair wind. 
Large sound blocks of the marble, of fifteen or twenty feet in 
length by four or five feet wide, might, I think, be obtained ; 
these would be fine ornaments as columns, &c. to buildings. 
As the marble does not take a fine polish, it would not be so 
much 
(*) Asastatuary marble it is totally unfit ; whiteness alone is not sufficient ; 
jt should also possess a granular structure. Those marbles are best for that 
purpose which, like the Carrara marble, resemble the finest white sugar. 
