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found the yellow and darker sands so extensively developed about 

 Ottawa. The shell-marl deposit (Vcrlics these sands, and along with 

 them form the newest or topMio t deposits of our district. It is in 

 these most recently deposited strata that the Human remains occur 

 remains which point to the time when this part of Canada was first 

 inhabited by Algonquin tribes who flourished at one time, leaving 

 behind them innumerable traces of the advanced state of civilization to 

 which they had attained whether in hunting or other practices of life 

 common to their race. But these newer and arenaceous strata deposited 

 on the shore or margin of an ocean or sea, point clearly to a period 

 of elevation, which period has been going on ever since, so that this part 

 of the Amei-ican Continent may safely be said to be rising yet, at 

 least in Eastern Canada, and until we have actual proofs of a sub- 

 mergence going on, a depi'ession along the coast or an encroachment 

 of tidal and other oceanic phenomena on the land, we may rest 

 safely with the happy thought that we are on the upwai'd move. 



