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Logan himself climbed the mountain which has since received his 
name, and he determined its altitude in 1844. Three or four other peaks 
are mentioned by him and their heights given, but the positions of these 
mountains on the map do not correspond well with Logan's description, 
so that they are difficult to identify 1 . 
Logan gives only a brief outline of his journey and makes no reference 
to Pleistocene geology in the route through the mountains. 
The marine terraces near the mouth of Cap-Chat river have already 
been referred to, and the first 23| miles, to the junction of Pineau river 
from the west, is outside the mountains. A few granite and gneiss boulders 
are found up to this point, which is about 343 feet above the sea by aneroid. 
A lumber road 20 miles long is said to reach Pineau river from Cap-Chat. 
Beyond this the river runs between the mountains for 9^ miles to 
the Forks, whose elevation is 434 feet. Just beyond, to the south, there 
are falls past which according to the guides boats do not go. 
Logan gives the elevation where he left the river for his overland 
journey to the Cascapedia as 587 feet, but he had passed two falls before 
this, one of 10 and the other of 60 feet, and had gone completely through 
the mountains, so that he must have been some miles above the forks 
where the writer’s party halted. 
The Brother of Nicolabert 
From the forks an ascent was made of the nearest mountain, a mile 
northeast, called by my guides Le Fr&re de Nicolabert (Plate V A) . It 
consists of a narrow ridge rising steeply to 2,546 feet, as determined by 
aneroid and corrected for temperature. It is about in the position of 
mount Matawa as shown on the geological map, the elevation of which is 
given as 3,365 feet, altogether too great a discrepancy. A careful reading 
of Logan's somewhat vague report on his work in the region shows that 
mount Matawa should be farther north, in line with mount Logan, and 
that a peak called by him South mountain, 2,413 feet, is in the position of 
The Brother of Nicolabert. The difference between Logan’s 2,413 feet 
and the writer’s 2,546 feet is probably accounted for by a failure to correct 
the reading for temperature in the earlier work. Neither Logan’s name 
nor the clumsjr one used by the Cap-Chat guides seems very suitable. 
From the summit it was evident that mount Nicolabert, across, the 
river valley to the west, though much higher than “The Brother” which 
we had climbed, was surpassed by at least three other mountains, one a 
dome continuous with Nicolabert to the west, Logan’s mount Bayfield 
(3,471 feet), and two other dome-shaped mountains toward the north. 
One of the last two must be mount Logan. 
“The Brother” is built of nearly vertical hornblende schist and has 
cliffs toward the northwest. It is wooded to the top and presents none of 
the features of a glaciated summit. A swampy lake half-way to the river 
shows no evidence of a morainic dam; but boulder clay appears near the 
river at the forks, indicating the former presence of a valley glacier. The 
boulders along the river included no granites or gneisses and seemed to 
be of local origin. 
_ 1 Mount Bayfield (3,471 feet) shown on the topographic map in the west corner of 
Joffre township was triangulated from the north shore of the St. Lawrence by Prof. L. B. 
Stewart of the University of Toronto and shown to be really 4 miles a little west of south 
in the township of Leclercq. 
