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Recent and relict periglacial features and phenomena are varied and relatively widespread throughout the James Bay area. Observations deal with patterned ground, frost-wedging, frost-heaving, palsen, string bogs, drift ice action, and various thermokarst features. Four categories of patterned grounds are distinguished: those found on lake shores, on mountain tops and in the coastal lowland around Point Louis XIV, and polygonal frost-wedges networks. Patterned grounds are mainly concentrated in the northern part of the territory. Frost-wedging is of minor importance throughout the area, taluses and block fields being the two most common features. Basalts and quartzitic sandstones are the most sensible rocks in regard to frost-wedging. Frost-heaving is also of minor importance, frost-heaved bedrock and boulders occurring at a few places. Forested and non-forested, mineral or organic palsen are widespread throughout the coastal area formerly submerged by the Tyrrell Sea. Weston and Bizarre Islands (52°32') are the southern limit of nonforested palsen, while forested palsen extend north of Matagami (50°). The non-forested palsen are mainly concentrated between 55° — 56°, whilst the forested palsen are concentrated between 52°24' — 54°24'. Thermal rimmed depressions and ground ice bowl-shaped slumps are two common thermokarst features. However, the thermokarst origin of circular, bearshaped and marginated lakes, and beaded and festoon-shaped rivers is not evident. Drift ice action is important in the three major sedimentary environments. Periglacial features in the James Bay area have various ages; some are relict features, others are recent or still forming under the present climatic conditions.
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Msg de Saint-Vallier, the second bishop of Québec, published a Rituel for the priests and missionaries of his diocese; two successive editions were published, a few years apart, although they were both dated 1703. This bilingual Rituel provides instructions for the clergy in French with respect to administering the sacraments and celebrating mass, while also specifying the expressions, prayers and blessings that the priests had to utter in Latin. The two editions printed in Paris by Simon Langlois contain significant variations. Although the formats of the two editions are identical (8vo), they contain 604 and 671 pages, respectively. The first edition was in all likelihood destroyed at the request of the bishop of Québec, since it clearly revealed that not only rigorism but also Jansenism had had a marked influence on Msg de Saint-Vallier, as evidenced by the resumption of the ritual of Alet which had been condemned by Pope Clement IX. The second edition, no doubt published circa 1713 although it was dated 1703, was intended to replace the first as if it had never existed, at a time when the papal authority condemned Jansenism.
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