plateau or an elevated plain with some remarkable points elevated in cones 
and domes; and by an "erf on cement" or opening which was probably the va'iley 
of some river to the south, we distinguished at the horizon a bluish "lueur" 
who ch we thought might be New Brunswick. The prominent points became still 
mors rare in turning toward the west until the horizon was again interrupted 
wo! 1 -marked 
in this direction by the contour of a quite distant part of the chain on whi 
which we wore , 
The highest summits in our view were generally of bare rocks. Those 
which followed them immediately in the scale were crowned with dwarf 
"spinette,s" or "s' Mn^ttes" sturd v and v^ry much branched of which several 
were no + more than 5 ft high but gr owning so close together that their 
branches interlaced. T t was very difficult to force ones passage. On 
still 1 ov'er summits, the sapinette was mixed wr ith bouleau bianc and the 
he i edit of the trees increased gradual 1 yas the cl evati on diminished . A 
trait which was noticeable to us in the vegetation, at a certain height 
on the mountains -and which could rot bat be agreeable to us after having 
been as it were imprisored in the forests situated at their fnd was the 
great extent of meadows which showed on every side except the north. Broad 
spaces to the east, south and west were carpeted by a very rioh vegetation 
and especially by the great diversity of species of ferns in the midst of 
which rose here and there groups of sapinettes or boul.o&u bianc or these 
two species of trees together, which gave almost the appearance of park 
or lawn to the mountain sides as if art had arranged and distributed all 
for ornament and presented often combined with the peaks the ravines and 
a distant horizon, a countryside of grand beauty. 
