SUGAR ISLAND, ST. MARTIN LAKE. 



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Sugar Island is a favourite camping ground of the 

 Dauphin Eiver Swampys, who now occupy this part of 

 the country. We found some graves near to a garden in 

 which potatoes were planted. A few pieces of tobacco 

 procured us a small supply of this vegetable, so rare and 

 valuable in these regions. Sugar Island is so named from 

 a grove of the ash-leaved maple, the trees of which bore 

 old marks of tapping. 



Sugar Island. 



I found here what appeared to be partially meta- 

 morphosed sandstone rock, tilted at an angle of 50°, with 

 a S. 30° W. strike. At one extremity of the island it 

 approached the character of gneiss, at the other extremity 

 it presented the appearance of impure sandstone layers 

 tilted at a high angle. Sugar Island is about a mile from 

 the Narrows, and lies S. 75° E. from three small islands, 

 which upon examination were found to consist of gneiss 



