MOUNT LOGAN, GASPE 
87 
Fig. 3 —Forms a panorama with Figure i which it continues westward. Mt.Collins, at left; Mt.Coleman 
at right. 
River Logan’s “Bonnehomme” came into view, a beautiful slope rising 
abruptly from the river and known to the local guides always as “Nicola- 
bert.” A hunter’s trail was followed to the base of Nicolabert and opposite 
it to the somewhat lower Le Frere de Nicolabert; but, as the southern out¬ 
liers of the range were in sight, it was evident that a return must be made to 
the Locked Camp if Mt. Logan was to be reached. Proceeding eastward 
from above the Locked Camp in the afternoon of July 21 the party reached 
the base of the 3000-foot northern wall of a mountain before dark. After 
a struggle through spruce pucker brush and over a precipice of some hun¬ 
dreds of feet, camp was made at the northwestern outlet of a cirque basin. 
The basin measured about three miles long, east and west, and one mile 
broad. Pease named it “Fernald Basin.” To the south rose the steep and 
often quite precipitous northern wall of the dome mentioned by Logan as 
being half a league west of Mattaouisse: to the east it merged into the abrupt 
wall of Mattaouisse, which at the head of the basin dropped to a graceful 
saddle (Fernald Pass). North of the Pass and the Basin rose another steep- 
walled and nameless mountain. 
With only one day available for the alpine crests the mountain to the 
north, named Mt. Fortin, was selected. After reaching the crest, botanizing 
all the way, the party descended into Fernald Pass, arriving there in the 
early afternoon. In every chimney and cranny were discovered arctic-alpine 
plants heretofore unknown south of Cape Chidley or east of the Rockies. 
It had been supposed that Mt. Mattaouisse was Mt. Logan; but the sudden 
appearance farther east of a higher mass confused the situation, and before 
the puzzle could be solved two electrical storms with hail and sheets of rain 
accompanied by violent wind broke over the Pass—one from the north, the 
