would rapidly acquire more material by the grounding of passing ice.

The surface contour of the mountain appears to be that of a comparatively little modified drift area, & resembles that of the Coteau in many ways. The lakes are basin like & drainage valleys are few & unimportant. A portion of the finer material has however been denuded from the slopes & ridges & deposited in the hollows, leaving the former in many cases stoney & gravelly.

Lakes are most numerous & largest towards the Western end of the Mountain, & they together with the ridges there appear to have a pretty uniform N & S. direction. This is not so apparent towards the East end

The forest clad area may be estimated roughly at about twenty miles square & of this about two thirds must be N. of the line for though the mountain extends much further South, much of the Southern portion is bare. The wood is chiefly poplar (Tremuloides Balsamifera &c) oak occurs abundantly however, especially along the edges of the woods, forming groves on the ridges & often growing interspersed with the poplar & birch. (Quercus macrocarpus probably almost exclusively) White birch is also abundant though not generally forming large groves. Black birch also occurs. Negundo & elm are also found the latter obtaining considerable dimensions in some of the ravines & valleys.

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