Geology, 6^c, of Malbay, L. C. 215 



The alluvion of the Middle Hill suffers but few strata to 

 shew themselves. Those at the back of the cluster of 

 houses, near the church, are the gneiss and calcareous con- 

 glomerate just mentioned. — The dark Limestone is the on- 

 ly rock I met with on the east side of this Hill, or that 

 flanking the valley of St. Etienne. — For six miles it is seen 

 at all levels ; but in the clearest manner, in the numerous 

 gullies and in the banks and bed of the river. About four 

 miles from Malbay Church I traced it in a gulley on this 

 side of the valley for four hundred feet. It is there usually 

 disposed horizontally ; but it is in many places inclined. — - 

 Near the top of this height, it wears the rounded, smooth, 

 and dough like shape of water- worn granite, together with 

 great indistinctness in the divisions of the Lamina?. 



With respect to the rocks in the more remote interior, it 

 may be here remarked, that the incumbered state of the 

 surface is such as to preclude any examination of them. — 

 At the lesserlake, they are primary; and also in the neigh- 

 borhood of the first fall in the Mai bay River, where they 

 are coarse and shattered gneiss running south-south-west, 

 and vertically, I believe. In one example, it contains a 

 vein of chlorite, running parallel to its stratification. 



The rocks of the Eastern Hill are also greatly obscured 

 by the alluvion of its sides; and by the dense vegetation 

 and debris of its summit; but in the latter situation, where 

 it overlooks the Bay, occasional ridges of white quartz 

 crop out and run nearly north. The texture is crystalline, 

 but now and then becomes granular ; and even of a con- 

 glomerated form. 



The rocks of the high and naked grounds in the rear of 

 this, appear, on distant inspection, to be primary ; but as 

 in a former case, the shores at the base of this hill will best 

 elucidate the geology of this locality. 



A shingled beach skirts the east side of the Bay, but at 

 the point where the shore first inclines strongly into the gen- 

 eral course of the St. Lawrence, a rapid succession of rocks 

 takes place. 



The first met with, is a collection of strata of knotty 

 greenstone, with a south-west direction and a dip, either 

 vertical or to the south-east. It is much veined by true 

 granite, containing hornblende and garnet. This green- 

 stone extends along the beach for 150 yards, and gradually 

 becomes gneiss, (towards the hill it is immediately buried 



