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Some Notes on Mount Royal. 



By J. S. Buchan, K.C, B.C.L. 



Mount Eoyal may be described as bounded by Sher- 

 brooke Street on the East, a line about a quarter of 

 a mile beyond the Electric Railway on the West, at 

 Outremont ; Park Avenue on the North, and the Electric 

 Railway on the South. The area thus enclosed, from the 

 scale on the map, is about 16,000 feet, or over three miles, 

 from North to South, and 11,500 feet, or over two miles, 

 from East to West. 



In shape it is a somewhat irregular oval, and has a 

 superficial area of about five square miles. In this space 

 there are three principal peaks, one at the Observatory, 

 739 feet above low water in the Harbor, another opposite 

 to this, and divided from it by Mount Royal Cemetery, 

 730 feet, and the Westmount, or Little Mountain, about 

 600 feet, from a Barometer reading, which has, however, 

 not been verified, as stated below. These points are 

 separated from each other, the first two by the depression 

 in which the Mount Royal Cemetery is situated, and the 

 latter from the others by the Cote des IsTeiges valley. 



It will be understood that these and all measurements 

 used in this paper do not pretend to give those of an 

 accurate survey, and in the sketches showing the line of 

 division between the limestone and trap of the mountain, 

 the irregularities of the lines have been neglected, as they 

 could not be correctly shown on a small scale plan, and, 

 further, were not necessary for the purposes of the present 

 paper, the object of which is to show in a general and 

 comprehensive manner the area, position and boundaries 

 of the respective trap and limestone formations of which 

 the mountain is composed. 



To assist the description, I have prepared some rough 

 sketches, on which the heavy black line on Figures 1, 2 



