466 REVIEWS—GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
the farmers, it appeared not unlikely that the spread of such patches of the ore 
is considerable in the neighbourhood. 
“Traces of the ore were seen in several other places in the seigniories of 
Green Island, Villeray, Cacouna, and Riviére du Loup, as well as in the town- 
ships of Viger and Whitworth, but the quantity was too small to require par- 
ticular mention. Asa whole, the oré-bearing tract is about twenty-four miles east 
and west by about five or six north and south. Whether the ore can be found in 
sufficient abundance to warrant the establishment of a smelting furnace is perhaps, 
as yet, doubtful. From the wooded character of a great part of the country to 
the south of the tract, charcoal for smelting purposes could be procured easily for 
mary years to come. 
“ Wad or bog manganese. This ore was found in the seigniory of Cacouna, on 
the lot of Mr. Stanislaus Roy already mentioned, in a patch measuring twenty- 
five feet by twenty ieet; it occurs in nodules of froma half to a quarter of an 
inch in diameter, imbedded in sand, and forming a layer of the thickness of four 
or five inches. 
“ Copper ore. Notwithstanding the great area over which the limestones and 
limestone cgnglomerates of the same age as the copper-bearing rocks of Upton, 
Acton and Leeds were examined, the only traces of copper ore met with were 
near the mouth of the Great Capucin River. Here, as already has been men- 
tioned, the pyritous sulphuret is disseminated in small specks in a bed of greyish 
green quartz, interstratified in red shale, while the green carbonate invests some 
of the cracks in the two inches of thickness containing the sulphuret. 
“Chromic iron. On the summit of Mount Albert, near the second station 
established by Mr, Murray for his measurements, chromic iron was strewed in 
abundance on the surface among the fragments of serpentine. It occurred in 
loose masses, weighing from a few ounces to twenty pounds. It was almost all 
quite free from rock, and the masses, continuing for a little over half a mile in a 
bearing N. 44 E., gave indication that this was the probable direction of its run, 
though the bed itself was not seen. The loose masses were so abundant that in 
a few hours a ton of the ore might have been collected by a single person; and 
their cleanness leaves little doubt that there must be a rich deposit close to the 
surface beneath the moss and soil. 
“ About four miles to the north-east of this, a bed of the ore, of about one inch 
thick, was observed in the serpentine; but the ore was not so pure as the masses 
on the summit of the mountain. The bed was traceable’ in the strike of the 
serpentine for about fifty paces. 
“Serpentine. The serpentine of Mount Albert, oecupying an area of not 
less than ten square miles, would yield an inexhaustible supply of material 
capable of economic application. The rock appears to be unusually solid, and in 
several places vertical cliffs of several hundred feet in height shew nothing but 
bare serpentine ; while masses of eight and ten feet in diameter, fallen from them 
lie at their base. The general colors, as far as observed, were green, or green 
mottled with red, and mahogany-brown striped with red, occasionally a blueish 
tint was mingled with the other colors. The distance of the locality from the 
St. Lawrence by the valley of the Ste, Anne River is thirty-four miles. By the 
