184 William Green’s Notes on the 
mixed with a very little of an equally fiue- grained rounded 
sand,translucent,of a pale red colour’ The latter notwithstand- 
ing its superior specific gravity, is always washed higher upon 
the shore than the other and is deposited upon it—and this 
occurs elsewhere, Mortar made of Beauport lime and these 
sands becomesextremely hard. That used in building Haldi- 
mand house at this place forty five years ago affords proof of 
this. 
The soil is brown of a middle tint relatively to the degrees 
of intensity of that colour. It is sandy here and there, and 
occasionally matshy ;—on the whole not remarkable either 
for barrenness or fertility, but sufficiently rewarding the toil, 
of its cultivators. In the woods the pine in several of its 
species prevails; yet it is intermixed with that variety of other 
trees whichis supposed to indicate a good soil. From the 
summit of the cliffs of lime upon gneiss represented in No. 3, 
it is obvious with respect to trees growing on the summlt and 
on the lower points, that vegetation is most luxuriant at the 
higher levels where their roots may feel the influence of the 
lime— and that in stature they diminish progressively as they 
occnpy lower stations where they grow out of fissures in 
gneiss and recede from lime. Not only do they diminish in 
stature, but the number of their kinds likewise decreases. 
The species which is most persistent appears to be a stunted 
black spruce—and at the lower points of the line of vegeta. 
tion here that spruce is uot accompanied by any other tree. 
This progressive deterioration appears confined to the gneiss 
cliffs, (see No.2. A.) ; those which are shaly being, where 
not too nearly vertical for the attachment of roots, clothed 
from their summit to their base with a vegetation equally vi- 
gorous throughout. The decrease of vegetation above men- 
tioned occurs, notwithstanding the constant presence of va- 
pour from spray and from the adjacent extensive sheets of 
water, in addition to the common supply of ruin, 
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