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glomerate are common here. Some of our party had the pleasure 

 of seeing a deer crossing the river here upon a log. Terraces are 

 common along the St. Croix and Ohepedaeck rivers, but rarely 

 over three iu number at any one place, and they are composed of 

 gravel. At the mouth of Big Sim Squash there are two very pretty 

 ones on the British side of the river. 



Two miles above Scott's brook the schists dip south-east. We 

 are now upon the great bends in the river, which one would sup- 

 pose to be indicative of vast meadows ; but it is not so. The land 

 is not very high upon the banks, but the meandering coui'se of the 

 river winds among many ledges. At the west end of the first 

 great bend of the river the rock is talco-micaceous schist, dipping 

 55° S. 20° E. ; as we enter Yanceboro' they dip 30° in the opposite 

 direction. Little falls and Eocky rips, both very strong water, lie 

 between Scott's brook and the south part of Vanceboro'. There 

 are two miles distance of dead water with very wide flats adjacent, 

 which yield large quantities of hay to the lumberman and the far- 

 mers of the Lambert lake settlement in' No. 1, R. 3, whose location 

 will be sought for in vain upon the maps. This marshy land if cov- 

 ered with water would make a large lake, and it is possible that it 

 may have been formerly the bottom of a lake. An obstruction of 

 a few feet at the Rocky rips would now turn it into a lake again. 

 Above this dead water are the " One mile rips," and one mile still 

 further, or three miles below Chepedneck lake dam are the Elbow 

 rips. The rocks are mica schist the rest of the way to the dam. 

 We were impeded in our course below the Corporation llouse by 

 a jam of logs a mile long, over which we found the work of carry- 

 ing very tedious. This was an unlooked for obstacle, as the laws 

 of the State require all such obstructions to be removed after a 

 certain date in early summer. We found the dwarfed salmon again 

 both at the foot of Chepedneck and of Grand lake above. The 

 Corporation House at Chepedneck dam is an unusually fine edifice 

 for such a locality. Three-fourths of a mile south-east from it, on 

 the British side, are ledges of mica schist. Thus on the St. Croix 

 and Cliepedneck rivers the rock is uniformly mica schist above 

 Sprague's falls. Over this distance are five axes, two synclinal 

 and three anticlinal. The low land soils are invariably very good. 

 That of the high lands may be compared with that between Bangor 

 and Charleston. This section was explored the last week in Au- 

 gust. 



