A(ii!rrri.Tii;AL i;i:s( »i lii Ks. 10;> 



.afi'dss ;i ])oita^f nine miles wide, ami lln- Humlicr i-iwr is 

 ivaclu'd. Till' scenery alony this |ilain, csiiccially at tlic l^)irrliv 

 Ponds, is vfi-y Ijeautit'ul, and sr\cial places riiiii|)aic imt un- 

 }Vvonial»]y witli tlie lake sccnciN <>[' the Jiritisji Isles. iJanie of 

 vai-ions kinds is almndant, and ilci r aie met with in large nnm- 

 1>ers. The snrvevor said in his ic|iiirt thai the Indian Brook 

 Valley, which opens into Hall- Hay, cunlains "jU s^nare miles or 

 32,000 acres oi' land availahh- i'nv larming jmrposes Avliicli would 

 give 80 acres each to 400 lamilics ; and that the aiea of timber- 

 hearing land is not less than loo sipiari' miles. The timber is 

 principally white pine, white ami lilaek s|)rnce, white birch ancl 

 tir. The pines vary IVum one i'nnt to three and a half feet in 



■ diameter at the butt. I'ldbrtunatidy, the tindjei- in Indian 

 Brook Valley lias been swejit nxry by tire, and although left 

 standing, it gives the country a desolate ajipearance. "• Tlie soil 

 is of a rich, sandy loam, easily worked." "There is still a con- 

 siderable ([uantity of timlier available foi- lumberers, and a very 

 large ([uantity suitable for farmers and Imilders." 



MINKKALS. 



"Tliei'e is a jirobabilitv that (■o[)per may be fouml in the 



■ eastern section of the jilain. The chloritic slates, which are .so 

 rich in cojJper on the sea-coast, are found in several localities 



■ on this route, and traces of copjier and iron jiyrites are observ- 

 able at a point about two nules in from the south-Avest arm of 

 Notre Dame Bay; also about four miles in, and at the east and 

 west extremities of Indian Pond." "There are several marshes 

 which are not deep, having a .-olid bottom at the depth of two 



or three feet, and these if drained Avoidd make very good mea- 

 dow land. On both sides of Slioal Pond the soil is of a ri<-li 

 sandy loam." 



THF GREAT A ALLKV OK THK EXPLOITS. 



Reference has been made in the ])receding chapter to the 

 Valley of the E.xploits, through a ])ortion of which the new 

 line of railway runs. The bay of Exploits forms a deep) l)ighfc 

 on the south coast of the gu-at bav of Xotre Dame. It has 



