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event of the kind are said to be seen, however, jn many places 
on the shore between Port au Persil and St. Paul’s Bay, such 
as the roots and trunks &c. of prostrate trecs, being covered 
with soil and loose masses of rock, 
The limestone mentioned last is of an excellent description ; 
it occurs in dark compact strata, dipping to the westward at 
an angle of about 45°. It has all the appearance of being an 
excellent building material, in great abundance and easily quar- 
ried, 
At the entrance into St. Paul’s Bay, the mountains which 
form the back ground haye a very picturesque appearance, 
rising in cone-shaped peaks and in alpine ranges ; they are, how- 
ever, not very elevated, 
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It is not perhaps generally known that there exists highly 
respectable evidence of a volcanic eruption having happened 
somewhere in the interior in the rear of St. Paul’s Bay. No 
one we think will feel disposed to doubt the fact after perusing 
the following account of it with which, through the politeness 
of Mr. Gagnon and Mr, Chaperon, we have been furnished, It 
is the former gentleman who writes :— 
“ Au defait du journal que se trouye ecarté, daignez rece- 
voir ce que suit : , 
“Samedi, 6 Oct. 179I, ala Baie St. Paul, et autie lieu cir- 
convoisin, vers les sept heures et quart du soir, se fit sentir un 
fort tremblement de terre ; toute la nuit fut troublée par de 
petits repetés, et entre par un tremoussement courant dans 
Vest, Les quarante ct un jours suivans trembkerent, depuis 
deux coups jusqu’a cing par jour. Le Lundi 8 Oct. fut d’un 
bon tiers moins fort que le premier (du 5) les autres furent que 
des petits, ou brouissemens ; le tems toujours obscur. Avant la 
nuit du 26 au 27, je n’avais pas encore remarqué d’éruption de 
fumée epaisse, par fois ondoyante de flamme ; la temperature a 
74 heures du soir était a 11° au dessous de zero du thermo- 
ei metre 
