of a part of the Saguenay Country. 189° 
in the early pages of this report. Between Pointe aux 
Bouleaux and Echaufaud des Basques, nearly isolated masses 
of what was considered to be granite, were seen ; they are 
shaped like a dome or rounded hay-cock, but generally the 
outline of the mountains on the coast, did not differ materially 
from that of the Saguenay ; the former are not however so 
precipitous. Having landed at Echaufaud-des-Basques, the 
predominating rock was found to be syenitic granite, in which 
trap was observed, forming dykes or veins. A vein com- 
posed of red felspar, quartz, hornblende and magnetic iron, 
traverses this rock. Flesh red crystals of feispar, and white 
masses of quartz, forming large distinct concretions, were 
seen under thz same circumstances. From a detached mass of 
syenitic granite, large kidneys of a fine black hornblende 
were taken, and also a beautiful specimen of light blue felspar 
having the lustre of satin. 
The surface of the rock here, was observed to have the 
same baked and porous aspect as before described. This ap- 
pearance is not in all cases confined to the surface. A spe- 
cimen brought from Ance-aux Femmes, in the Saguenay, has 
been already described, as possessing the character of poro- 
sity, both internally and externally, in so eb ir a manner, 
as to be a fair sample ofa mill-stone. 
It would prove a mere repetition to be as circumstantiay 
in our discription of the rocks, on the north shore of the 
St. Lawrence, between Tadousac and Mal-Baie, as we have 
been between the former place and Chicourimi—We will 
therefore confine ourselves to a few remarks which will em- 
brace those striking or important differences observed. 
Though trap was occasionally seen, forming dykss, veins 
aod imbedded pieces in the predominating rock (a syenite, 
syenitic granite, or syenitic gneiss,) no rocky masses of it, 
whether stratified or unstratified were perceived, It is not 
Meant to assert, however, that they may not be found, but only 
to imply, that they are by no means so common as in the Sa- 
gnenay 
