of a part of the Saguenay Country. 129 
Embarking and crossing over to a cliff about thirty feet in 
height, called Pointe Blue, it was found to be composed of the 
same fetid lime-stone in distinct horizontal strata. Organicre- 
thains are found in this rock, but they are generally indistinct, 
Embarking again for the south-eastward, the limestone was 
observed to continue on the shore, and at another point resem~ 
bling ‘Pointe Blue it forms a similar precipice on the lake. A 
little beyond this we put on shore, and found the same lime- 
stone forming alow beach. A cedar was measured here the 
girth of which was twelve feet, it was, however, by no means cha- 
racteris‘ic of the place, although the soil appeared to be much’ 
improved since meeting with the lime-stone and clay-slate, a 
circumstance that was to be expected. At the bottom of a bay 
beyond this place the same horizontal lime-stone forms the 
shores and bed of the Littleor Ouitchouanitch river which, asa 
rapid here falls into Lake St. John. 
* Running once more to the south-eastward we encamped on 
a bare limestone point opposite L’Isle des Couleuvres. Some of 
the voyageurs had the greatest disinclination to visit this island 
on account of the number of snakes which were reported to ex- 
ist there, and many wonderful stories of their forming festoons, 
knots, and lying together like a string of sausages, were told ; 
but after traversing the whole island one shrivelled skin only 
was seen. Pears too (probably under the guardianship of the 
snakes) were said to be abundant with equal foundation. The 
shores to the northwestward were abundantiy strewn with many 
fragments of coralliies, among which we recognized caryophil- 
liz, chain coral, madrepores, retepores, millepores, and particu- 
larly that corallite so much resembling a bee’s hive, and called 
favosite. The varieties of caryophilliz resembled those to be 
seen in the sixth volume of the Geological Transactions. Some 
of the madrepores might easily be mistaken for the fossil eye- 
tecth of some animals, but their internal radiated structure 
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