242 THE CANADIAN GEOLOGICAL STJRTET. 



Having thus glanced over the Field operations of the Survey, let 

 us shortly consider the means the Director has had at his disposal to 

 accomplish what already has been done. 



In 1843, Mr. Logan, accompanied by a single Indian with a bark 

 canoe, made a thorough examination of the whole of the Graspe 

 Coast, counting every step he took from Cape Hosier to Port Daniel, 

 besides making many pedestrian excursions into the interior — 

 and collecting a large quantity of most valuable fossils and other 

 specimens. And while he was thus employed his assistant, Mr. 

 Alexander Murray — frequently entirely alone, and often in parts 

 remote from all settlements — collected sufficient information to give 

 a tolerably correct idea of the structure of the whole "Western Pen- 

 insula. In 1844 and 1845, a triangulation was effected across the 

 Graspe Peninsula from Cape Chat to Bay Chaleur, a large portion of 

 the rauge of the Xotre Dame or Shick-Shock Mountains surveyed, 

 most of the principal rivers measured, the geological character of 

 the rocks ascertained, and specimens collected. This service was 

 performed with a party consisting of only four Indians with two 

 canoes. In making the survey of the Ottawa more assistance was 

 found to be absolutely necessary, but, except in few instances, neither 

 Mr. Logan nor Mr. Murray's party have exceeded the complement of 

 six altogether — inclusive of four Indians and an assistant. 



Since 1845, when the additional appropriation was granted, an 

 explorer has been added to the staff whose labors have been incessant 

 and of great value ; but while fully admitting the greatly improved 

 circumstances under which the survey was then placed, and the more 

 extensive scale under which the operations were enabled to be carried 

 on, it must be clear to any one at all acquainted with the nature of 

 the service, and of the difficulties to be encountered in a perfectly 

 new country, that the amount of work performed and reported upon 

 never could have been accomplished but by the most indefatigable 

 perseverance and continued application. Accuracy with Mr. Logan 

 is everything — nothing is allowed with him to be of the slightest 

 value that is not essentially correct. With regard to the office 

 work, we have simply to refer to Mr. Logan's own answer before the 

 Select Committee of the House of Assembly to question 73, on page 

 26 of the published Eeport, to show how his time is there employed : 



Question 73, page 26 (referred to.) — "Each one on the Survey has so much to 

 do connected with his own individual department, that all the general office work 

 falls upon me. I keep all the accounts, and for that purpose a set of books by 

 double entry, in which I enter no gross sums, with a reference to accounts, but 

 everything in detail for easy and immediate reference if required, and I render an 

 account to the Government with the same detail on the face of it; so that any 



