Mr. McICenxie represents the whole coast of Labra- 

 dor, and the country east of the lakes, or what is 

 called East Main, as little else than an immense region 

 of rocks and fresh water lakes, with a very scanty 

 portion of soil, and which is still less in the interiouj 

 parts.* 



Of the French river he says, as before mentioned, 

 " There is hardly a foot of soil to be seen from one 

 end of the French river to the other ; its banks con- 

 sisting of hills of entire rocks." (Page 37.) 



Mr. Hearn confirms the report of McKenzie by 

 saying, that neither the coast of Labrador and Hud- 

 son's straits, nor the east coast of Hudson's bay have 

 any herbage or trees upon them.f 



Of the Stony mountains lat. 68 14' north, he 

 says, l6 No part of the world better deserves that 

 name, as they appeared a confused heap of rocks 

 and stones utterly inaccessible to the foot of man." 

 Even of the whole of those regions inhabited by the 

 northern Indians he says, "The land throughout 

 that whole tract of country is scarcely any thing but 

 one solid mass of rocks and stones, and in most parts 

 very hilly, "f 



In all these cases, if I am correct in my views of the 

 operations of the agents of disintegration and decom- 

 position of rocks, there is but little or no appearance 

 of a decay of the materials with such exceptions 



* McKenzie's Travels, page 427. f See Hearn, page 7. 

 | Hearn's Journey, page 327. 



