ofa part of the Saguenay Country. 113 
the faces of the laminz possessed a highly polished vitreous 
and striated surface. They have much resemblance to a fel- 
spar rock subsequently found to occupy a large proportion of 
the shore of Lake St. John, as also to specimens of felspar 
brought from the coast of Labrador, where they were observed 
to be associated with columnar and amorphous basalt. One 
fragment of a silecious limestone was also found, It appears 
that about twenty years ago lime was made at the Post, and the 
site of the kiln is shewn where specimens of a half-burnt lime- 
stone appeared. It isavery good compact shell limestone of 
a grey colour. Some of the burnt pieces were white, had a 
splintery fracture, and resembled chert or hornstone. If there 
be a natural deposite of limestone in the neighbourhood it could 
neither be heard of nor found ; that in question might have 
been brought for the occasion from Malbay or St. Paul’s Bay 
where limestone abounds. 
It has been before mentioned, that a considerable alluvial 
deposite occurs here. It consists of fine marly clay, which ia 
wet weather is so considerably plastic and adhesive, as to be 
traversed with difficulty on foot, when covered by no vegeta- 
ble deposite. Its essential characters are the following: colour, 
light french gray—structure, earthy compact—fracture un- 
even. In water it falls to pieces rapidly and in acid it effer- 
vesces slightly. The undermost beds which are not exposed 
to moisture, assume the appearance of rocks stratified horizon 
tally, and it is probably this formation which we observed, when 
within a few miles of the Post. 
Upon crossing the Saguenay, opposite the Post, syenite and 
a rock composed of an intimate mixture of hornblende and fel 
spar, the former in excess, were seen ; the latter contained a few 
teales of mica and points of quartz : it was compact, magnetic, 
and more resembled basalt than any rock we had previously 
seen. The syenite was composed of flesh coloured felspar and 
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