The Laurentian Hills 217 



Granite Boulders from the hill side, choke up the 



rapid stream, 

 They are ground by rushing water, till as pebblos 



they are seen. 

 As the river current lessens, then are pebbles 



ground to sand, 

 To be carried to the ocean, forming bars and 



banks so grand. 



Then the life that fills the ocean, the crustacean 



and the shell, 

 When dying, left their skeletons the seas broad 



floor to swell. 

 I can see Ontario's mountains rise where early 



life is seen. 

 The muUusk of the ocean, and the sea weeds liv- 

 ing green. 



The Laurentian Hills are rising at the margin of 



the sea. 

 While the bordering waters throbing with mol- 



luskan life so free, 

 The globe's thin crust is resting on the molten 



mass below. 

 Transformed, as hard as granite, on her flanks 



the Trenton rest 

 The land mass is slowing growing to the east, and 



south and west. 



Now the water of the ocean, bring forth a count- 

 less tribe. 



Of many forms of shell fish that are scattered far 

 and wide. 



