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Grand Volume, the highest salmon fishing club house, it turns a little 
south of east. 
At about half-way up Laurentian boulders are no longer found. 
After that granites from Tabletop, serpentines from mount Albert, and 
schists from the Shickshocks are mixed with local boulders. At various 
places on lumber roads along the river boulder clay is found, evidently 
formed by ice coming from the mountains. 
The camp is not quite at the head of navigation, since a boat can be 
poled up to the forks half a mile above. Beyond this the river turns 
more to the south and there are violent rapids and one fall of 60 feet in 
the deep valley near mount Albert. The main river can be followed 
through the woods with very rough travelling for 12 miles more to the 
head of lake Ste. Anne on the other side of the higher mountains, giving 
a total length of about 45 miles. 
Mount Albert 
The name mount Albert was given to this mountain because Murray 
in 1854 ascended it on August 26, the birthday of Prince Albert. It is 
the most frequently climbed among the higher summits of the Shickshocks, 
as it provides one of the best hunting grounds for the caribou, and there 
is a moderately good path to the summit from the usual camp ground 
a little below the forks. It is well known to the French Canadian guides, 
who generally pronounce the name as one word, M'Albert. 
The mountain is only briefly mentioned by Murray, but is described 
more in detail by Low, 1 who mentions its flat-topped character and the 
loose, brownish blocks of serpentine that form most of its surface, also the 
finding of a poor grade of asbestos in the serpentine. Nearer the river 
he found fairly fresh olivine rock, thin sections of which were described 
by Adams. Neither writer refers at all to glacial matters. More recently 
the mountain has been briefly described by Prof. Mailhiot whose statement 
that certain portions of the summit “present a true glacial surface” does 
not agree with the writer's observation. 2 
It was ascended twice by the writer, the first route being up Ste. 
Anne river to Devil creek which was followed past heavy falls to Devil 
lake. It was thought this might be glacial. On the way boulders of 
serpentine and of mica and hornblende schist were seen. The lake, which 
is 1,522 feet above the sea, is in a wide, open valley with flat surroundings 
including many boulders of serpentine and hornblende schist, but is not at 
all cirque-like and presents no evidence of ice action. 
The mountain is reall} r a steeply walled tableland covered with 
weathered masses of serpentine except for a ridge of garnetiferous horn- 
blende schist which rises a little higher than the rest and has rolled frag- 
ments down on the serpentine. It resembles some tablelands in the Torngat 
mountains of Labrador and seems never to have been crossed by ice, 
though ice may have moved outwards from it. It is like them in another 
respect, also, since there are polygonal solifluxion structures, with larger 
fragments toward the rim and smaller ones inside. 
1 Geol. Surv., Can., 1882-4, p. 7 F, etc. 
2 "Mining Operations in the Province of Quebec,” 1918, pp. 146-151. 
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