JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 49 



I find in the Journal of Proceedings for 1882-83 a paper by a 

 member of the Association, A. T. Freed, on Iron and Steel, in which 

 he alludes to the forges established by the French in Quebec at 

 Three Rivers. Bog iron was used in the foundry at the St. 

 Maurice Forges for a century nearly. In a report to Parliament in 

 March, 1879, he finds it stated: "St. Maurice's Forges, owned by 

 F. McDougall & Sons, Three Rivers ; using Bog ore ; making a very 

 fine iron with charcoal fuel." 



At one period after its discovery about 250 men were employed, 

 and large quantities of pig and bar iron were exported. Almost all 

 the iron axes (or tomahawks) found either in Indian ossuaries or on 

 the surface of ploughed fields in this Province were made at the 

 St. Maurice Forges. The trade mark, you may notice, is a cross 

 within a circle. Mr. Freed mentions when Franquet visited the 

 foundry and forges in 1752, in accordance with instructions from the 

 Intendant of New France (Bigot), the workmen, 180, were employed 

 in stove moulding, and the iron was preferred to the Spanish ore. 



WINONA AND GRIMSBY. 



During the past summer a shorter time than usual was spent in 

 collecting along the lake shore and at Grimsby. The residences at 

 " the Park " were vacated at an earlier period than was expected. 

 The Cambro-Silurian Shingle on the Beach presented a few fossils 

 (undescribed as yet probably), and others recently found in Canada, 

 but known previously as occurring in Ohio, U. S. A., described and 

 figured in the States Geology by th» late Dr. James Hall. One of 

 the best preserved specimens of an " Orthcdesma" I have seen was 

 recently obtained by Mr. Bartlett, at Winona, who paid it a visit 

 since I left the camp. The most interesting fossil obtained by the 

 writer then was a large Patelloid shell, bearing a resemblance to a 

 Crania. It is not Phosphates, so can hardly come under The 

 Discindae. It may perhaps belong to the Order Atremata (Beecher) 

 Super family, Obolacea (Schuchert). I have never seen anything 

 like it figured. A small portion of the shell is concealed by the 

 matrix, but the shape of the Valva can be readily distinguished and 

 the ornamentation is well defined. Few Cambro-Silurian fossils from 

 Lake Ontario's southern shore at Winona are in better preservation. 

 As a general rule they are difficult to extract there. In the upper 



