No. 1.] MATTHEW — GEOLOGY OP NEW BRUNSWICK. 99 



the Nercpis river. These hills vary from 700 to 1000 feet in 

 hei_uht, and are without longitudinal valleys, but have transverse 

 valleys of no great depth. 2nd. The area occupied by the valley 

 of the St. John and its tributaries. This tract is characterized by a 

 number of longitudinal ridges and valleys having a S. W. course. 

 The ridges are broken by several transverse valleys, many of 

 ■which are eroded nearly to the sea level. The third tract is the 

 broad unbroken ridge of the Quaco hills and the slope to the 

 Bay of Fundy on its southern side. It extends from Black river 

 (twelve miles east of St. John) to Shepody mountain in Albei t 

 County, and rises to a height of from 900 to 1200 feet above the 

 sea. The wide Carboniferous plain to which allusion has already 

 been made, lying to the north of these districts, is in most parts 

 not more than two hundred feet above the sea-level. 



The table of striae given below relates chiefly to Charlotte 

 County and the western parts of St. John and King's counties. 

 In it the scattered observations of several years are combined, and 

 although brief and imperfect, it will, I think, serve to show, to 

 how great an extent the peculiarities of the several tracts above 

 named have influenced the direction of the glacial grooves. 

 Numbers 1 to 14 give an average of S. 45° E., and pertain to the 

 district west of the Magaguadavic. The course of the rivers in 

 this part of the Province mark its south-easterly slope. Numbers 

 15 to 21, which gives an average of S. 10*^ E., were taken in the 

 granite hills and in the low country north and south of them. 

 They probably exhibit the normal course of the glacier (?) in the 

 middle and eastern part of New Brunswick. Numbers 22 to 33 

 give the course of the striae on the eastern side of these hills as 

 far,as the St. John river. Here the average is S. 35^ E. East- 

 ward of this the influence of the ridges and intervening valleys 

 descending south-westwardly to the St. John Biver, is clearly 

 seen in the average of S. 25° "W., yielded by numbers 34 to 36, 

 40 to 44, and 51. Numbers 46 and 47, which are on a low S.W. 

 prolongation of the Quaco hills, by their average of S. 10° W., 

 exhibit an approximation to the next set of striae, which are on 

 the ridge overlooking the Bay of Fundy and on the slope towards 

 it. Here there is no obstacle to a direct descent to the depres- 

 sion, occupied by the Bay, and numbers 45, 48 to 50, and 52, 

 in the average of S. 35° E., show a tendency to return to the 

 strong easterly set of the striationsin the western part of Charlotte 

 county. 



