1902] Ells Marl Deposits. 69 



extending inland for a fourth of a mile. It had a thickness of 

 about one foot, and was covered with peat. In a lake about half 

 a mile inland it was seen to cover an area of about 200 acres but 

 the thickness here was not ascertained ; and near South Point, 

 which is near the southeast end of the island, about twenty-six 

 miles west of Heath Point, it was also seen along the shore, rest- 

 ing upon the rocks and covered with a deposit of peat about ten 

 feet thick. 



New Brunswick. 



, ,^ , In the province of New Brunswick shell-marl in so 



tJaydesL-naleurs "^ 



Chario River fg^j- ^s yet known is rarely seen. In the northern 

 portion around the Bay des Chaleurs it occurs on the shore at 

 Belledune underlying peat, the quantity apparently not being very 

 large, and also at Chario river in the bottom of a small lake 

 where the marl is said to have a depth of nine feet. This deposit 

 has been locally used to some extent as a fertilizer. 



, . T , In the southern part of the province, marl occurs at 



Lawlor s Lake ^ ^ 



St. John, several points. The most important of these appar- 



ently is in the bed of Lawlor's Lake, which is about five and a half 

 miles from St. John city on the line of the Intercolonial railway. 

 The marl has been exposed by a partial drainage of this lake, the 

 deposit apparently underlying the whole of the lake basin, but is 

 apparently thickest at the two extremities, especially the eastern, 

 where the depth of the marl is reported as two feet. In places 

 this deposit is associated with peat. In the western part marl has 

 been found in the bed of a small lake a short distance above Burn- 

 shaw Brook on the right bank of the Tobique river. 



Nova Scotia. 



^ In Nova Scotia no deposits of special economic value 



Canaan "^ ^ 



near Kentviiie, havc as yet been reported with the exception of an 

 area on the South Mountain ridge at Canaan to the south of the 

 village of Kentviiie. This has been locally used as a fertilizer for 

 some yeai;s and has been to a large extent exhausted. The beds 

 of many of the lakes, especially on the range of the Cobequid 

 mountains as well as in portions of Cape Breton are filled with 

 large deposits of infusorial earth, as is ^.Iso the C9se with several 

 lakes in eastern New Brunswick. 



