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hills already referred to, scratches were seen on the north side 

 of the crest of the ridge, about 500 feet above sea level, by 

 aneroid. The exposure shows that the abrading mass ground 

 oflF the corners of the rocks on the west side. 



(4) On Lily lake road, about three miles south of Campbellton, 

 on the third range of hills from the Restigouche river, striae 

 were observed in several places, about 650 feet above the sea. 

 The rock-masses here also exhibit stossing on the west side. 



(5) Near the Intercolonial railway at Charlo river the surface 

 of a trap dyke was seen to be eroded and polished on the west 

 side, but no distinct scratches appeared. Its height was about 

 twenty-five feet above the Bay. 



In all these localities the course of the striae is nearly east and 

 west by the compass. 



At New Mills, Benjamin river and Black Point, I noticed 

 roches moutonnees in the fields and ledges of crystalline rocks 

 along the shore with their surfaces smoothed and rounded, and 

 the west sides stossed, while the east were broken off and abrupt. 

 Grooves, not very distinct, were observed having a course nearly 

 east and west, or between that and south 70*^ east at various 

 heights from sea level to fifty feet or more above it. 



On the east side of Jacquet river I saw very distinct striae on 

 the site of the Intercolonial railway, in 1873, in the bottom of a 

 clay cutting, on red conglomerate rock, which is now covered by 

 the track. The course was about east and west, and the height 

 of the ledge above sea level twenty-five feet. 



The second set of striae is met with in the tract lying between 

 Belledune river and Petite Roche, the grooves and scratches 

 being well exposed along the Intercolonial railway. Owing to 

 the harder nature of the rocks in this locality, which are chiefly 

 limestones, traps and diorites. they have resisted disintegrating 

 agencies more effectually than elsewhere within this region, and 

 a large extent of rock-surface is laid bare or but very thinly 

 covered with soil; nevertheless the striae have been preserved 

 with remarkable distinctness. They are to be seen at distances 

 of every two or three hundred yards in the fifteen miles which 

 intervene between the two places above named. The course is 

 almost invariably south 60^ east. These striated rocks are all 

 stosaed on the west side. The scratches occur at heights of from 

 75 to 200 and 250 feet above tide level. Crossing them at a 

 small angle, fainter striae were occasionally noticed, as if caused 



