AOlilCULTUItAL IJKSOritCES. 97 



■Jerived from llic ailj'aceut nioiiutaiiis, logotlier witli the disinte- 

 gration of the trai>i)ean rocks of \vlii(.-li the sub-soil is conqiosed.' 



KIVIERE BLANCHE. 



Of Riviere l^lauche a river falling into St. George's Bay near 

 Indian Head, the Ei'port says : — " This I'ivur was measured about 

 six miles up its course. A block of rich Hat land, sujoported on 

 members of the carboniferous series, is shut in, as it were, by the 

 :Silurian mountains on the nm-tli and west, and by the Indian 

 Head Range on tlic cast, whicli is chietly (h-ained by the Riviere 

 Blanche and Roniain's or Kippen's brook. The area of the block 

 is between 30 ami 40 scpiare miles or about 22,400 acres. The 

 whole of this area (cxee]iting the small (dearings at the mouths 

 •of the streams) is dcnscdy covered witli forests of large and vigor* 

 ous growth, with aljundance of yellow bircli, spruce, fir and 

 other trees, but scarcely any pine " 



HAKRY'S liKOOK VALLEY. 



"The valley of Harry's Brook, al)ove the western fork, is rug- 

 ged and barren for the greater part, and much of it is hilly and 

 mountainous. Below the junction of Spruce Brook jiatches of 

 good land begin tn ajipear, chietly on the right bank ; and back 

 from the lower reaches, on the same side, there is a broad tract 

 of very good country. The islands and low banks near the out- 

 let are of the Ijest soil for grass meadows. To the south-east ot 

 Spruce Brook nearly the whole c(.)iinti'v is s])read over by vast 

 marshes which extend u]> to the Hanks of the hills on the south- 

 west side (jf the (rraml Lake.'' 



TEXINSULA OF rOKT-A-1'ORT. 



Xoilh of St. (Jeorge's Bay extends the small peninsida of Tort- 

 a-Port, between it and the Bay (4' L-lands. The mineral indi- 

 cations are of the most i)romising ehai-acter and warrant the 

 expectation that it will one day l)e a mining centre. A lead 

 mine was opened here manv years ago, but ov.-ing to the jealousies 

 ■of the Fi'cnch, who have lishing riglits on tliis coast, the Imperial 

 Autlun'ities ordered operations to be susjicnded. Such orders, 

 howevei-, would not be issued now. Cojiper and asbestos have 



