114 Lieut. Baddeley on the geognosy 
green hornblende. A few imbedded patches of trap were also 
seen. From the falls of Chicoutimi, a light coloured syenite 
was brought, composed of light red felspar and black shining 
crystals of hornblende. Mr. Nixon returned from a stroll up 
the river, onitsright bank, with specimens of trap, traversed by 
veins of felspar, and a gneiss, in which hornblende was more 
abundant than either the quartz or the felspar, and to which 
the term hornblendic gneiss may be affixed ; an aggregate of 
this description was rarely met with. ‘The mean of two ob- 
“servations for latitude, gave 48. 24°. 9”. 
‘Leaving the Post of Chicoutimi, and its polite and gentle- 
manly resident, Mr. Andrews, on our route to lake St. John,a 
‘portage of nearly a league in length, was made to the Chicoutimi 
river, over the same syenitic rocks as those seen near the chapel, 
which are covered with a thin layer of the marly clay of the 
neighbourhood, surmounted by the usual vegetable deposite ; a 
good soil, but too near the rock to be very productive. The 
same soil, to appearance, and always accompanied by the same 
rock, ata greater or less depth, continues as far as the portage 
de l’Enfant, after which it becomes sandy and indifferent : some 
good positions for se:tlement may be expected in this interval, 
Although the rocks in many places are known to be near the 
surface, they were seldem seen, the land on either side the Chi. 
coutimi river thus far being very little elevated. At the portage 
de l’Islet, however, they are much exposed to view, and con- 
sist of syenite, in which the felspar is as before flesh coloured, 
and very predominating. his rock has very little soil upon it 
and the whole of the portage is a barren waste. Before reach- 
ing the portage de V’Islet, the banks begin to assume a more 
elevated character and they continue to increase in height as 
far as Jake Kenwangomi, on the southern shores of which lake, 
and that of Kenwangomiehiche, they have attained an extreme 
height of from three handred to four hundred feet. The next 
portage 
