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appear on the Middle Metis Lake and Lake Matapedia, would give good building 
stone. 
‘* Time. In the limestone conglomerates of group B masses of the rock are 
found, in most localities, which yield stone of sufficient purity for burning into 
quick-lime. At Metis a single boulder of dark grey limestone imbedded in one of 
the conglomerate bands was calculated to weigh twenty-five tons. It was being 
quarried for line-burning at the time of my visit to the place. Pretty good stone 
for burning might be obtained from the base of the Gaspé limestones as far as 
they were traced. 
“ Shell-marl. About five miles below the Matanne River, just over the bank of 
the St. Lawrence, on the lot of Mr. Denis Gougé, there occurs a deposit of fresh- 
water shell-marl. It is at the outlet of a swamp, and where dug through it had 4 
thickness of fifteen inches. I was informed that on an occasion when the swamp 
became dry in summer, the deposit had been seen in other parts of it. The 
swamp has an area of between fifty and sixty acres. 
“The only other locality in which shell-marl was observed was on the Lower 
Lake Metis. In the upper part of this lake wherever the dredge was used it 
always brought up shell-marl, but the thickness of the deposit is uncertain. 
“Peat. A large area in the seigniory of Riviére du Loup is covered with peat. 
The locality is called the Savanne de la Plaine. The exact boundaries were not 
ascertained, but the area cannot be less than nine or ten square miles. It stretches 
along both sides of the river from the third to the sixth mile, and to the eastward 
it bas a length of three miles, diminishing to the breadth of a mile at the east 
end. Its length on the west side of the river I was not able to ascertain. 
“ Peat was observed in abundance on the first and second concessions of Green 
Island Seigniory, and from a point two miles below the Rimouski River there is 
a belt of it extending nearly all the way to Metis River, a distance of over twenty 
miles. The northern edge of the belt approaches in some places to within a 
quarter and in others to within half a mile of the St. Lawrence, and its width is 
from a quarter of a mileto a mile. The thickness of the deposit where observed 
was from one to six feet. 
“The swamp which has been mentioned on the Rimouski, in the third range of 
Duquesne, is underlaid with peat; from within half a mile of the Rimouski it 
extends two miles to the east in Duquesne, and from one to two miles more in 
Maepes. Its breadth is about three quarters of a mile, and its thickness from five 
to twelve feet. Where tried by me, a pole was sunk in it nine feet; but I was 
informed by one of the inhabitants that a pole had been sunk in it to a depth of 
thirty feet on Bouchette’s road.” 
The report of Mr. Sterry Hunt, comprises a series of communica- 
tions of great scientific interest on the Intrusive Rocks of the Montreal 
and Grenville districts, respectively; together with analyses of 
chloritoid and epidote from the altered Silurian rocks of the Hastern 
townships; and the results of an examination of the green colouring 
matter of certain sandstones belonging to the Quebec group. This 
