. The Canadian journal ; a repertory of industry, science, and art ; and a record of the proceedings of the Canadian Institute. 1853.] TFIE VALLEY OF THE KOTTAWASAGA. Simeoc, witli a few isolated ligiit sjiots, indicating eleai'ances, appear blue in tlie distauLC. As the liigli ground of Osprey tends to , it terminates in a roeliv escarpment, sweeping round tluough the Township of Collingwood, parallel to the shore; its base has a steep descent towaids the coast, heaxily â i\ooded with pine, cedar, birch, and liardwood. Here the Trenton Limestone crops out I'ich in fossils, of
. The Canadian journal ; a repertory of industry, science, and art ; and a record of the proceedings of the Canadian Institute. 1853.] TFIE VALLEY OF THE KOTTAWASAGA. Simeoc, witli a few isolated ligiit sjiots, indicating eleai'ances, appear blue in tlie distauLC. As the liigli ground of Osprey tends to , it terminates in a roeliv escarpment, sweeping round tluough the Township of Collingwood, parallel to the shore; its base has a steep descent towaids the coast, heaxily â i\ooded with pine, cedar, birch, and liardwood. Here the Trenton Limestone crops out I'ich in fossils, of wliich a variet}' and a specimen of Bituminous Shale, probably of the Utica Slate, are laid on the table. Commencing at the southern extremity of the Valley, on the dividing ridge which separates tlie drainage into Lake Huron iVom that into Lake Ontario, and follo^ving the course of any of the principal branches of the Nottawasaga, we pass through a liigh, broken country, cut up by deep ravines, ileaching the. To«â n^hil> of Essa, the hii'h ground begins to I'ecede, leav- ing between a perfectly level i>lain, about 3 iniles in width, through which the River flows between banks tVom 50 to 70 feet high. Li approaching the north end of the Township, these banks gradually fall awa}-, we enter a \ast ti'act of barren land, extending westward and occupying nearly the whole of the uorthern half of Tosorontio and Essa; the best portions are capable only of supporting a thin growth of senibby ])ines, and many thousand acres ha\e been o\errun by fires, wliich seein to have destroyed such meagre vegetation as may once have struggled into existence. The main highway frona Barrie to Owen Sound passes through about 8 miles of this dreary v;;e, and all who have travelled it can testify that scarcely any road can be more lonely, and few landscapes couLl be more monotonous than the " burnt ; Leaving this wilderness, and following the course of the River, we
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