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A splendid canyon more than 2,500 feet in depth occurs between 
Nicolabert and a mountain ridge to the northeast, apparently a continua- 
tion of the Logan range. This part of the Cap-Chat valley presents 
probably the finest scenery in the Shickshocks. 
Where cliffs are not too steep the whole region is wooded, except the 
tops of the highest mountains, the timber being mainly coniferous, spruce 
and balsam, with a few scattered white pines; but birch and maple, the 
maple sometimes more than a foot in diameter, are found also in the 
valleys. 
Logan Range 
The party passed out of the mountains and landed at Pineau river, 
just beyond them, proposing to reach mount Logan by walking across 
country to its foot. The region is densely wooded and the course of about 
3 miles southeast was very crooked. A camp was formed at 1,450 feet, 
still in thick woods, where the slope became very steep. 
From this camp two excursions were made up a slope of 45 degrees 
or more to the crest of a ridge at about 2,500 feet. A half mile southwest 
of the point of ascent a peak rises to 3,086 feet, overlooking Cap-Chat 
valley with mount Nicolabert in a southwest direction on the other side 
and mount Bayfield farther in the same direction. Turning northeast 
the ridge rises to about 2,800 feet in a quarter of a mile, dips a little, and 
in half a mile reaches about the same elevation again. Another dip follows 
when the ridge turns southeast and culminates, after 1| miles, at 3,285 
feet, the highest point reached in this excursion. 
Thus far the mountains traversed had the character of a ridge with 
very steep slopes, sometimes cliffs, toward the west and north, and gentler 
slopes south and southeast, the whole forming a broad horseshoe 2 miles 
from southwest to northeast with a valle}^ between the end ridges. 
Beyond the highest part of the ridge toward the northeast a sharp 
depression occupied by two ponds, each perhaps a quarter of a mile long, 
has the appearance of cirque basins, and drains southwards. 
On the other side of this steep-walled valley rises a dome, considerably 
higher than the ridge to the northeast and bare at the summit. This 
the writer took to be mount Logan, but on a more careful reading of 
Logan's account, now thinks is mount Matawa, to which he gives the 
elevation 3,363 feet. Localljq this dome is called Couvert de Chaudron. 
Foggy and rainy weather and lack of supplies prevented any further 
exploration of this very interesting and almost unexplored range. 
The rocks observed are slate at lower levels and green epidotic, 
chloritic, or hornblendic schists on the ridge itself, all in a nearly vertical 
attitude. Asbestos, of the hornblende variety, was found during our 
ascent of the ridge, but it is probably not of economic importance. 
The sharp mountain ridge showed no signs of ice work, but the two 
ponds in the valley to the east probably indicate the action of small glaciers. 
The roots of upturned trees expose a stony clay, perhaps till, though no 
striated stones were found. 
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