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the general level of the surrounding country, and nearly 
bare of vegetation. Towards Lake Metapedia and the line 
of the Intercolonial Railway, the great ridges of the Gaspé 
peninsula become much less prominent, but a little to the 
westward of the lake, another range, that of the Notre Dame 
Hills, rises somewhat abruptly from the surrounding plateau, 
and stretches away in the direction of the head-waters of 
the Grand Metis and Patapedia rivers. It does not, how- 
ever, quite reach these latter, and to the westward of these 
streams no ridges of a well defined or continuous character 
are to be met with. 
The rivers which drain as well as owe their origin to the 
great belt of high land here described, present many in- 
teresting features. They are quite numerous, including, in 
the Gaspé peninsula proper, the St. Anne des Monts, the 
Dartmouth, York and St. John at the eastern end of the 
peninsula, with the Grand Pabos, Bonaventure, Big and 
Little Cascapedia, tributary to the Bay Chaleur. Farther 
west we have, on the north or St. Lawrence side, the Little 
and grand Metis, the Rimouski, the Trois Pistoles, Riviére 
Verte and Riviére du Loup; while on the southern side, 
besides the Metapedia, there are the Restigouche, with its 
tributaries the Patapedia and Quatawamkedgwick, the 
Madawaska, the St. Francis, the Big Black and Little 
Black rivers, with others of minor importance. As might 
be expected, the streams flowing northward into the St. 
Lawrence are, as a rule, much smaller than those flowing in 
the opposite direction, but if we include the entire distance 
of the latter to the sea, the contrast is in some instances 
quite remarkable. Thus while few of the streams tributary 
to the St. Lawrence show a greater length than thirty 
miles, the length of the Metapedia, including the lake, is 
nearly sixty miles, that of the Restigouche from the source 
of the Kedgewick nearly ninety miles, and the St. John, 
measured in the direct line from Temiscouata to the Bay of 
Fundy, 260 miles, or from the source of the St. Francis, 
over 300 miles. The streams on the north shore also differ 
in being usually more irregular in course, with more 
