128 = Lieut. Baddeley on the geognosy 
existing knowledge on the subject may render probable, Ha+ 
ving taken the trouble to examine, if an opinion be advanced 
(with humility proportioned to the degree of information) which 
is strongly opposed to experience, no censure is justly due 
though it prove erroneous. Some beautiful specimens of encri- 
nal marble of a fawn colour are found here which would polish 
well and prove highly ornamental. 
The limestone contiuued in visible strata for above one hun- 
dred and fifty feet, after which it appeared only in angular frag- 
ments for about a mile and a half further, when it again was 
seen in regular strata, forming a projecting point in the lake, the 
intermediate portion of the shore being characterized by anu- 
merous collection of boulders consisting of granite, trap, mica- 
slate and angular fragments of clay-slate. Having seen no 
mica-slate befo:e while in the Sagnenay country, we may have 
mistaken trap for it, the pseudo-metallic lustre of which, as 
we have before said, causing it often to resemble that rock. 
Two or three semi-rounded masses of the felspathic reck 
near La Grande Discharge were also seen. 
The stratification at the above-mentioned - point is obscure, 
but it appears to dip gently tothe east. Much of the lime- 
stone had a very conglomerated aspect, or at least it appeared to 
be made up in a confused manner of pieces of itself, though no 
distinct imbedded fragments were seen. It contains imperfect 
fossil remains of corallines and orthocera. 
Proceeding beyond this point the shore became gradual’y 
crowded to excess with fragments of various rocks principally 
of limestone. Rocks under the form of boulders were also very 
common, and as before, angular pieces of clay-slate. The num- 
ber of these boulders, generally about the size of the head, 
rendered our walk over them painful in the extreme, the beef- 
skin mocassin being by no means a sufficient protection in these 
cases to the foot ui accustomed to wear it. 
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