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a great portion of western Canada, this limestone was ages ago 
denuded, and has Jost the greater part of its petroleum. © - 
In the easternmost part of North America, and at the extremity 
of the peninsula of Gaspé, petroleum is again met with, issuing 
from sandstones which belong to the base of the Devonian series. 
The oil springs are here found over a considerable area, along 
an anticlinal, and may yet prove to be of economic importance. 
s of thickened petroleum, like those of Enniskillen, are here 
met with. Near to Cape Gaspé there is a remarkable dyke of 
amygdaloidal trap, ten or twelve yards in breadth, the cavities 
of which are often lined with chalcedony, or with crystals of 
calcite and quartz. Many of these cells are filled with petroleum, 
which in some cases has assumed the hardness of pitch. 
dor of the bitumen, which may be perceived to a considerable 
pmance, has caused the name of Tar Point to be given to the 
OCalit 
In concluding these notes, I beg to call the attention of geolo- 
in the Carboniferous system, a third oil-bearing horizon, 
analogous to those of the Trenton and Corniferous limestones. — 
Montreal, Dec, 20, 1862. 
SS 
Arr. XIX.— Origin of the Indian Race of Hayti; by J. A. Van 
EUVEL, of St. Lawrence Co., New York. 
_ AT the period of the discovery of the West India Islands by 
Columbus, they were inhabited by two very dissimilar races. 
— and unwarlike character, who were of the same origin, 
ka Smaller islands south of them, extending in a chain to South 
. . . 
erica, were at the same time inhabited by the fierce and war- 
like Caribees 
a Tace is expressly stated by Columbus. In a letter which, on 
's return from his first voyage, he addressed to the Treasurer of 
Pain, he says, “there is no difference in their countenance and 
matuers, and they all speak the same language.”' Of the gentle 
? Navarette, ii, p. 385 (Paris edition). 
