116 Lieut, Baddeley on the geognosy 
scales of a briglit goldencolour. The same thing occurred, 
by submitting it to the exterior flame of the blowpipe, in which 
it also decrepitates and is difficult to be retained in the forceps. 
One of the golden coloured scales in the interior flame of the 
blowpipe fused into a shining black.and highly magnetic glo- 
bule, With borax it forms a transparent glass coloured by 
iron. The color subsides on cooling. 
The rocks in this place have little appearance of stratifica- 
tion ; judging from the little which does appear, the bearing is 
north and south, and‘dip nearly vertical, The latitude was 
here found to be 48 © -16° 22°. and the approximate variation 
of the compass was also taken at the same time, viz: sixteen 
and a half degrees. Being very near the rocks at the time of 
the observation it was suspected that their magnetic character 
might affect it, but upon reversing the sights of the instrument 
upon the same right line, the slightest difference only was ob- 
served, which might have arisen from a small degree of inaccu- 
racy in the compass, 
Beyond this place a mass of rocks of a very blackened and 
singular aspect was observed on the northern shore of the lake ; 
and crossing over from the southern, a distance of about two 
thousand feet, we found these rocks to be almost entirely com- 
_ posed of yellow brown and greenish coloured felspar. In the 
solid scarp of one of these rocks, resembling that of a martello 
tower, it was easy, on a near approach, to perceive, notwith- 
standing its weathered surface, the pearly but subdued lustre 
of the felspar, and the fibrous aspect which the edges of the 
laminz presented at the surface of the rock. The stratification 
of this rock in this place was not very apparent, but a little 
higher up on the same side it was observed to have a bearing 
to the north and dip at a high angle to the west. 
The imbedded pieces of trap so common on the Saguenay, 
are again seenhere. The land on both sides of Lake Kenwan- 
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