Mineralogy and Geology. 117 
The valley of Bay St. Paul, is the course of the river Gouffre, and i 
Murray Bay River isa few miles to the west. Coal had been reported 
as occurring in this region, but incorrectly as it was proved, the rocks- Pes. 
being the ‘l'renton Limestone, calciferous sandrock, white quartz rock Sy! 
corresponding to the Potsdam Sandstone, and metamorphic rocks as ee 
. gneiss, either granitic or syenitic. On the uplands, west of St. Urbian a fy 
Church, the rock is hornblendic and contains large masses of titan- 
iferous iron, one of which was 300 feet long by 90 broad. Among the 
‘fossils of the limestone are Chetetes lycoperdon, Streptoplasma cornicu- ¥ 
m, S. crassa, Receptaculites neptuni, Schizocrinus nudosus, Leptena 
alternata, L. sericea, Orthis pectinella, Atrypa ambigua, Platynotus 
trentonensis, Calymene senaria, species described by Mr. Hall in his 
Report on the Trenton limestone fossils of New York 
There are also in the same valleys tertiary deposits containing marine. 
shells, among which are Tellina grenlandica, T. calcarea, Saxvicava 
rugosa, and others ; and they were traced to a height of 390 feet. At 
little Malbasic there were six terraces, and in other places, one or more 
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commences an extensive deposit of clay, sand and gravel ; we followed 
the section made through it by the river for about a mile and a-half, 
and constantly found the clay beneath and the gravel resting on It; to- 
wards the top of the gravel, the bank often presented a horizontal deposit 
inches thick, filling the interstices among pebbles of various kinds, man 
Ment exists on a small brook which gives a section through it at right 
angles to the main stream, on the 8. E. side; ascending this about the 
_ third of a mile, an rying a few pounds of the gravel at the top which 
Another locality was about a mile up the stream 
