Baie des Ghaleurs there appear in succession Silurian, devonian, 
Silurian, and metamorjahic overlaid by lov/er carboniferous. Throughout 
the whole region there are numerous outcrops of granite, serpentine, 
and dolerite or trap. 
The principal peaks along the Shickshock range are Mt, Bayfield 
(3500? ft.), Mt, Logan (4100 ft.), to the west and east respectively 
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of the Gap Ghat river, M&. Albert (4100? ft.), and Mt. Tabletop (4250 Ft.), 
tO'the west and east respectively of the Ste. Anne river. Of these 
four highest peaks I have visited Mt. Albert three times, Mt. Tabletop 
once, and Mt. Logan once. It may oe of passing interest to know that 
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the highest point of land in the GaspiS penindqla)is named Botanist’s Domd 
■-.the main dome of. Mt. Tabletop 
on a map recently published by the Canadian government. It is stated 
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extensive collections there. This party of botanists consisted,of Prof. 
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fernald and myself T According to the same map the small lake which 
was swarming with small trout,('on the shore of which we camped, at the 
west base of Mt. TabletopVhs named Lac de* Americains, also commemorating cwv 
visit there.A a \ \ a 4- 
The interior of the peninsula is entirely uninhabited, so far as 
human beings are concerned, and largely unexplored. Back from the shore 
it is densely wooded, mainly with white spruce, fir, arbor-vitae, white 
pine (and occaional red pine), rock maple, white and yellow birch, 
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poplar, black ash, larch, etc. Along the shore, except in the extreme 
northeastern portion, there are scattered farms and small villages, 
the majority being on the south shore along the Baie des Ghaleurs. 
The easiest way, even today, to reach the interior is $»y canoe, although 
along some of the larger ?iver valleys there are at the present time 
winter lumber roads, over which one can sometimes ride on a woods buck- 
