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camp. The summit is of green and grey schist, but, only 80 feet below, 
granite forms an eruptive contact with it, carrying off large fragments of 
schist. The narrow valley northeast of First mountain contains two rock- 
rimmed ponds at 3,340 feet and is a characteristic “hanging valley”, 
sending a stream over cataracts for 1,000 feet to other ponds in the valley 
below. This chain of small lakes begins in two small bodies of water half 
a mile east of camp and above 3,500 feet, and includes six lakelets before 
the stream flowing from them is lost in forest beyond the foot of the moun- 
tains on its way to the East fork of Ste. Anne river. 
After this valley the mountain front is fairly straight for 2 \ miles, 
rising in a mile to about 4,000 feet, the summit consisting of schist, then 
dipping a little, with a main summit at 4,060 feet. 
A cirque-like basin without a lake separates it from the Northwest 
peak, the last in the row, about 3,900 feet high; but the two mountains are 
connected by a narrow ridge of granite between the cirque valley on the 
west and a deep ravine occupied by a branch of Ste. Anne river to the 
east. 
Northwest peak is somewhat isolated and differs from the rest in 
sending a long ridge off to the west with steep slopes toward the lower 
wooded country on each side. This ridge formed the writer’s route in the 
first ascent of Tabletop. The gently rolling top of Northwest mountain 
is formed of schist, followed by slate which continues in the ridge running 
to the west. 
To the north and northeast can be seen much lower but still moun- 
tainous country cut up by valleys containing lakes, and reaching the shore 
of the St. Lawrence between rividre & la Martre and Grande-Vall^e, as 
described before. The lower mountains are all wooded to the summit, 
but some of them probably reach 2,500 feet. 
Eastekn Summits on Tabletop 
The deep ravine carved by a branch of the Ste. Anne, which flows 
northwards in a succession of falls and rapids, separates the last mountain 
of the western rim from a tableland, wooded or covered with lakes and 
swamps which interfere with travel. At about Jtj miles west there is a 
bare dome rising above the woods, called in the writer’s notes the Northeast 
dome. The ascent from the west is at easy angles, but stunted spruce 
thickets are troublesome, and the bare, gently rounded top is elongated 
toward the east, with a steeper descent toward the lower wooded country. 
The summit reaches 4,290 feet by aneroid with temperature corrections, 
and the limit of 4,000 feet encloses a tract reaching half a mile to the east 
of the highest point. The rock observed was porphyritic granite, partly 
very fine-grained, and sometimes enclosing masses of a more basic eruptive. 
There are a number of lakes to the east and southeast and two of the 
largest, half-way toward camp, were named for the writer’s guides in 1919, 
Tanguay and Perree, lake PenFe being the more easterly. They drain 
toward the Ste. Anne, but the streams were not mapped. 
Two miles south of Northeast dome is another dome, slightly higher 
but of the same kind. The upper part of the ascent showed downward 
moving' streams of small, angular stones with grassy or mossy bands 
between. The top was covered with loose blocks of granite and reached 
4,350 feet, and an oval area a mile in length from east to west is above 
4,000 feet. 
