of a part of the Saguenay Country. 11 
hate of lime, appears to have been taken from a trap rock situ- 
ated in the first eove on entering the bay fromthe north; the 
length of the trough is about two inches and breadth three 
quarters of an inch ; the sides are indurated, and of a dark brown 
ferruginous colour, bearing the aspect of having been in contact 
with trap. This trough is half filled with calcareous spar, the 
exterior of which is covered with a smooth yellowish silky 
film, as if water washed. Professor Cleaveland has the follow- 
ing passage, in his second volume of his System of Minerelogy 
and Geology, 2nd edit. :— Real lava does without doubt some- 
times resemble basalt, green stone and other trap rocks, but 
it may be considered as an universal fact that although calcareous 
spar is often found in green stone and basalt, it is never im- 
bedded in those lavas which have actually flowed on the sur- 
face of the earth .”* 
Several soils collected by Mr. Proulx in different parts of the 
Saguenay, principally in the neighbourhood of Ha-Ha Bay, ha- 
ving been examined, were found to be as is shewn by the follow- 
ing table :— 
No. 1. Ha-Ha Bay be mixture of clay sand and? Excel- 
lime, (marly clay) lent. 
2. Ditto ditto ditto. 
8. Ditto ditto ditto. 
4. Ditto ditto (without lime) Good. 
5. Ditto ditto ditto ditto. 
6. whee ditto aiid Vite Excel- 
et lent. 
7. Between Ri- } 
vers ne se ditto (without lime) Good, 
& Dumoulin 
8. Ditto ditto ditto, 
9. Ditto ditto, with vegetable matter ditto. 
10. Ditto ditto, sand, clay and iron Bad. 
* By the latter part of this sentence, which is somewhat obscure, we un- 
derstand those lavas which have been ascertained positively to have flowed, 
commse many geologists assume an igneous origin for all or most of the trap 
rocks, 
