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and at some points, specimens of cray-fish were also 
observed. The soils of the region under discussion can be 
best considered in connection with the geological formations 
which have determined them. 
The oldest rocks of the Gaspé Peninsula proper, are, 
according to Mr. Hlls, those which make up the mass of the 
Shickshock Mountains, and consist chiefly of epidosite, 
garnetiferous gneiss, horneblendic, chloritic and micaceous 
schists, together with large masses of serpentine, portions 
of which are distinctly stratified, while others suggest an 
eruptive origin. These rocks were described in the 
Geology of Canada, by Richardson and Logan, as being an 
altered portion of the Quebec group (Sillery), but are 
referred by Hills, chiefly upon lithological grounds, to the 
Pre-Cambrian. The only point where the belt of rocks so 
referred has been observed by the present writer is on the 
eastern shore of Lake Metapedia. They here consist of 
heavy masses of grey, greenish and purplish amygdaioid, 
holding considerable quantities of epidote, and bear some 
resemblance to the Huronian of southern New Brunswick, 
but not more than they also do to similar masses occurring 
in connection both with the Cambro-Silurian and Silurian 
formations. ‘To the north of these volcanic rocks, upon the 
same lake, the rocks are chiefly hard massive sandstones of 
a greenish (or rarely purplish) color and distinctly bedded, 
but with these, at two points, are beds in which the sand- 
stones, by the enclosure of limestone pebbles, become a 
coarse, gritty conglomerate. These rocks have also been 
referred to the Quebec group (Sillery) but they have as yet 
yielded no fossils, and further investigation of their re- 
lations is required. At the extreme northern end of the 
jake, the rocks are undoubtedly those of this latter group, 
and from near Sayabec Station on the Intercolonial Rail- 
way io St. Flavie, are exposed in a very remarkable and 
almost continuous section, showing repeated alternations of 
bright red, green, grey and black slates, with beds of 
massive grey or whitish sandstone. The former resemble 
the strata which at other points along the south shore of 
