Report of the Bureau of Mines Volume 8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...southeast corner of Haviland township, between Goulais and Batchawana bays. A somewhat steep and stony road leads north and then northwest from this point to the settlement on the western side of Batchawana bay. Formations on (loulals Rlver. The ground rises as terraces in McAuley's neighbourhood, affording level stretches of good but sometimes stony clay soil, now largely divided into farms and partly under cultivation. The rock observed here and to the north is Huronian, partly felsite in beds alternating with slate, partly Logan's slate conglomerate with eruptive masses of syenite or gneiss breaking thropgh it. Some of the slate is very cleavable and might be of value for roofing. The highest point in the settlement, called rather absurdly the " King of all the MounKing of the tains," was ascended and found by m""""""-aneroid to rise 1,320 feet above lake Superior, or 1920 above the sea. It was used as a triangulation station by the U. S. Hydrographic Survey, and remains of their tripod are still to be seen on its highest point. The rock of which it is composed is quartzite, the hardest and most resistant of the region. On the side fronting the settlement it is so steep as to be almost unsealeable, but a blazed path windmg round behind the mountain top gives an easy ascent. From the summit the view is very fine, more variety of surface being in sight than from Tip Top mountain, though the latter is about 200 feet higher. Some miles to the northeast one can see a mountain which looks distinctly higher than the King of all the Mountains, and it is possible that this may even surpass Tip Top in height. All round the peak there are forest covered hills with here and there bare slopes of...