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EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



PLATE 1. 



View of the lake-covered Southern Plateau at Maitland, eighteen miles south of 

 Annapolis, Nova Scotia. 



PLATE 2. 



View of " South Mountain," the northern edge of the Southern Plateau, at Digby, 

 Nova Scotia; the Annapolis Basin in the middle ground. 



PLATE 3. 



Gaspereau Village and Vallej' of the Gaspereau River, which lies intrenched in 

 the even-topped Southern Plateau. Looking south. 



PLATE 4. 



North Mountain, seen across the drowned Tertiary lowland, from Wolfville, N. S.- 

 PLATE 5. 



View of North Mountain at Cape Blomidon, showing the flat sky-line. In the 

 middle ground is seen the Tertiary peneplain level and the sea-cliff in tilted 

 Triassic sandstone. 



PLATE 6. 



The Triassic lowland seen from " The Look-off," near Canning, N. S. The even 

 sky-line of the Southern Plateau in the background. Compare the view of 

 the Connecticut Valley Lowland published in the 18th Ann. Rept., U. S. Geol. 

 Surv., Part II., Plate 1. 



PLATE 7. 

 Digby Gut, looking south toward Annapolis Basin. 



PLATE 8 



View of North Mountain, looking west from " The Look-off." near Canning, N. S. 



Sea-bench at South Joggins, N. S.. seen at half-tide, looking west. 

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