152 Lieut. Baddeley on the geognosy 
magnetic iron. In the first part of our journey we met witls 
tolerable land, although by leaving the valley to our right and 
ascending the hills we got among the rocks and an inferior 
soil. ‘These rocks are universally felspathic, and of a cream- 
coloured external surface. After proceeding about two leagues 
we came to the reunded brow ofa hill which afforded us a beau- 
tiful view of a part of the chain of mountains which we had seen 
on entering the bay, and in which the St. Paul’s Bay river has 
its source. The summits of these mountains were rounded» 
perfectly bare, whitened and precipitous. We were informed 
by our guide that after crossing these mountains a wide fertile 
plain is reached, through which the Malbay river takes its 
course ; he was in the constant habit of crossing this plain with 
Indian hunters, with whom he was associated. Continuing our 
route a little further we came to the flat surface of a rock se- 
veral yards of which were totally bare and whitened. All we 
had before seen in our route were so covered up with vegetation; 
presenting only an angle to the eye, that it was not easy to 
decide with certainty whether they were in place or not, but here 
no donbt could exist on the subject. It was one of those 
tabular masses so common in felspathic rocks, composed of 
brown -felspar, quartz and hornblende; the quartz was very 
distinct on the weathered surface, from which it projected in 
grey grains, owing to the greater resistance it opposes to the 
action of the atmosphere. 
Distinct concretions of a very laminar hornblende, possess- 
ing polar magnetism, were observed in this rock. 
We reached our encampment for the night at the foot of 
the chain, having passed over in the course of the day much 
tolerably good land, well watered by small brooks and streams 
issuing from lakes, along the side of one of which we passed. 
Rising early in the morning we commenced the ascent of the 
chain, and on the summit of the lowest part of its ridge, we 
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