240 On the Transition Rocks of the Cataragui. 



tonian struggle, which is so visible, both at the Bay of the Seven 

 Islands, on the opposite coast of Labrador, and on the Gaspe shore 

 of the St. Lawrence, although they are both nearly a day's sail dis- 

 tant from these cliffs. 



Here, in the highly picturesque scenery of Jupiter River, where 

 a shed filled with provisions, unlocked and having a few utensils for 

 cooking, with a painted board showing that it is twelve long leagues 

 to the next depot of stores, we deeply felt, amid the stern solitude, 

 where no animate being seemed in existence, save the seal or the 

 sea bird, our own insecurity, heightened by the storm-beaten wreck 

 of the large brig Bonito, which formed a prominent and sad feature 

 in the otherwise beautiful and grand display of coast landscape. 



But to return to our present object, or the influence which formed 

 the dome-shaped and sugar-loaf cones in the vicinity of this dreaded 

 island. 



The Paps of Matane, which we have already mentioned as being 

 very advantageously seen from the sea, are not, however, easy of 

 access, owing to the desolate and howling wilderness in which they 

 rear themselves. 



But there is a cone which can be approached without difficulty, 

 and which has been seen by several travelers. 



It is situated on the New Brunswick side of the Restigouche 

 River, exactly opposite the opening of the Kempt Road, from the 

 Indian mission of Point a la Croix, or Restigouche, in Canada, to 

 Metis on the shore of the St. Lawrence. It was visited by our party 

 in 1831, and again by Captain Baddeley soon afterwards, when it 

 was ascertained to be of trap, and to rise to the height of one thou- 

 sand two hundred and thirty feet. I am not aware, however, (for 

 I have not seen that officer's account of his exploratory journey,) 

 whether he was able or not to ascend to its summit, which I con- 

 ceive could not be accomplished without extreme labor and the ac- 

 tual cutting of a passage, as it is densely covered with the eternal 

 forest and is very steep. From the views we were able to obtain, 

 both of it and of the singular pointed mountains in the rear of the 

 mission, I should suppose that no vestiges of a crater are to be 

 found, — such appearance perhaps, however, will be discovered in 

 the interior, amid the more numerous and more lofty domes, particu- 

 larly as the fragments of trap, which lay along the streams crossed 

 by Captain Baddeley, exhibited undoubted signs of a lava-like form- 

 ation, in the actual vicinity of these domes. 



