of a part of the Saguenay Country. 117 
gomi is elevated, but much more on the southern than on the 
northern. Its course, upwards from Portage des Roches, is 
at first to the southward of west, but its main course is to 
the northward of that point. Its length, numerous rocky capes 
and bays, and its precipitous shores, cause it to resemble the 
Saguenay, but its mountains are neither so high nor so barren. 
About four miles above Sandy Point, a name which has 
been given to a low bank of sandy alluvium, stretching out in- 
to the lake from the northern shore, there is a dry green bay 
which appears to enter deep into the north shore and to be free 
from mountains and rocky precipices for some distance. It is 
the only place we observed between Portage de |’Enfant and 
that of Kenwangomi, where land fit for farming might be ex- 
pected to Occur in any considerable quantity. 
The portage Kenwangomiis generally supposed to separate 
the waters flowing into Lake St. John (and subsequently into 
the Saguenay through Lake Kenwangomishish, La Riviere des 
Aulnets and La Belle Riviere) from those which pass more di- 
rectly through the Chicoutimi into the Saguenay ; but it is said 
that this is not, strictly speaking, the case, because a small 
stream falls from Lake Kenwangomishish into Lake Kenwan - 
gomi. Although unusual, this is not a physical impossibility, 
without indeed, as has been asserted, the waters of the latter 
are higher than those of the former. This portage is about 
eighteen hundred paces in length, the first half of which is 
sandy and the other a mixture of sand and clay. On the lat- 
ter ash was observed for the first time, and it was frequently 
seen with elm and other woods, which indicate a good soil 
{though never in abundance) in our descent from this place to 
Lake St. John. 
Shortly after embarking on Lake Kenwangomishish we 
touched at an angle of a rocky islet and found an aggregate 
composed of felspar, quartz and hornblende, a syenitic gra- 
nite. 
