THE 



CANADIAN 



NATURALIST AND GEOLOGIST. 



Volume III. 



OCTOBER, 1858. 



Number 5. 



ART. XXVII. — A Week in GaspL Read in part before the 

 Natural History Society of Montreal. 



In 1843, Sir William Logan informed the writer of this article, 

 at that time engaged in the study of the coal-fields of Nova 

 Scotia and their fossil plants, that he had found in Gaspe a 

 great series of sandstones and shales older than the carboniferous 

 system, and probably of Devonian age, containing remains of 

 fossil vegetables, apparently terrstrial, and a small seam of coal. 

 Such an announcement awakened, as a matter of course, a 

 strong desire to visit a locality so interesting, and to study this 



