very high I 
valleys which have been mentioned and altho they constitute the A toothed I 
ridge, none of them is morp than a mile from the northern base of the whole I 
range. The five miles which compose the rest of its breadth present lower ■ 
summits and one of the higher of those summits which comes out in a re- 1 
markable wanner on the east side of the gorge and to which T,r o gave the name I 
of Mt . du Sud is found to have 2413 ft oi ovat ion. All these mt . summits I 
as well as the crest of the north are escarpements on their north side and g 
generally with a gentler slope on the south side, in the probable direction H 
which in this part of the chain can he considered as E, N. E . and W. S, S, 
magnet ically, I 
From the hi ghost summit wo visited, the .nxxxxlpat: spectacle, the panorama* 
which unfolded for us was grand and magnificent to the highest degree. In || 
the north half of the circle, the waters of the St. Lawrence, ornate with || 
its ships and fishing vessels, extended to right and to loft, as far as I 
our eyes could reach. Or its northern shore immediately in from of our I 
position one could distinguish by the unaided eye the lighthouse of the ■ 
Points des Monts at some 50 miles away where the granite hills which rise ■ 
immediately above it in the interior sink gradually to the horizon as fast aJ 
they are more distant.when we follow them to the entrance of the gulf, to a H 
point where we think we could discern the island of Anticosti 100 miles away 
theu the haze caused by distance, whig e at our feet were disposed in parallel 
lines the hills and vail ey S between us and the liver (fleuve). To the cast 
a confused mass of mountains and ravines belonging to the chain of the 
Notre Dame mountains filled several degrees of the circle and we suppose th 
that one of the summits whore we saw a spot of snow was higher than that 
where we were. Several peaks were bear and as they retire one behind the I 
other and ocouoy a smaller anrlo in the perspective it became difficult | 
to distinguish those of the Notre Dame M ountains from those which belong to # 
other chains. Turning to the south the picture is occupied by a sea of 1 
ridges or hills parallel undulating, and we presume that farther away a 
