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schist dip 50° N. W. For several miles there is a meadow on 

 both sides of the Chepedneck, but narrow. Half a mile above the 

 last rips are another set of rapids, the Tea-kettle rips. Four miles 

 above the confluence are the Chepedneck falls, by which we were 

 obliged to carry our canoes and baggage. The schists are quite 

 green here, with a very few veins of white quartz. They dip 

 60° N. 30° W. Upon Enoch brook are some extensive flats, called 

 Catamount meadows, which are very productive. 



Clark's point is at the mouth of Millsberry brook. There are 

 three farm houses in this vicinity, two of them on the New Bruns- 

 wick side. We had what is called " dead water," i. e., still, for 

 five miles above Clark's point, and the banks are alluvial and fer- 

 tile. Near King brook, (N. B.,) are two deserted farm houses. 

 In the south edge of No. 1, R. 2, or the Dyer township, are green- 

 ish mica schists precisely identical in appearance with the schists on 

 the upper part of the river St. John. It was this resemblance that 

 first suggested to us the probability of the rocks on these rivers 

 being identical in age with that on the St. John. These rocks dip 

 75° N. 30° W. There are wide meadows here. In this part of the 

 township is an Indian village. Above the village are the Canose 

 rips, where the water is very strong. In the dead water above, 

 called Loon bay, are more farm houses. Near the mouth of Little 

 Sim Squash brook is the farm of the enterprising Mr. Keene, who 

 has cultivated it for many ye;irs. A mile below Keene's there is a 

 change in the dip, to the south-east, so that we have here a syn- 

 clinal axis. Above Keene's we pass over Hog island and Meeting- 

 house rips, the latter named from the roof-like shape of the large 

 granite boulders in the river. At the latter rapids are ledges of 

 a calcareous ferruginous schist, perhaps a limestone, dipping 48° 

 N. W. It has a metaliferous aspect. 



We have noticed along this river and further west boulders of 

 conglomerate, which probably came from a Devonian formation to 

 the north or northwest. Some appear like the red conglomerates 

 of Woodstock, which is probably of the age of the gypsiferous 

 rocks of the Tobique. Their position in the drift would indicate 

 that they came from Maine ; and if so from some outlier not yet 

 discovered. Below Big Sim Squash brook in No. 1, R. 3, at the 

 Tunnel rips the dip of the mica schist is about 30°, but irregular, N. 

 20° W. Some of the strata are curved in the fashion of small anti- 

 clinals and are argillaceous. Large boulders of granite and con- 



