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cliff. To this the name Forillon was vicariously applied, the name of the 

 whole bemg taken for the part. The obelisk was also to the French, La 

 Vieille, the Old Woman which, says the Abbe Ferland, with its tufted cap 

 of verdure, resembled some of the Canadian grandmothers. It is a fallen 

 woman now, for it went down in a heavy sea in 1851 ; Admiral Bayfield put 

 it on his charts as the Flozverpot and so it stands today on English maps. 

 We have referred to this obelisk as having perhaps furnished to the Indians 

 the name for the whole Gaspe country. It has been suggested that Forillon 

 may be derived from forer, to drill or bore, as one should say, a drill, and 



The Forillon from beyond Peninsula to the cape ; showing the character of the sky line. Grande Greve about i inch fror.i 

 the land's end. Taken from the hills back of Gaspe basin, i6 miles from the cape 



certainly this long narrow spine upon the charts might well suggest such 

 a name. Others would construe the term as referring to the piercing 

 of the end of the cape by the parting of the obelisk, and have the word 

 apply to that only. Be this as it may, the obelisk is gone and naught 

 remains but the Flowerpot. In recalling the term Forillon for this Gaspe 

 spine of land we return to an ancient usage and in so doing find a needed 

 geographic name. 



High on the broad southward slopes of the Forillon are scattered some 



