No. 1.] MATTHEW — GEOLOGY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 89 



Bersimis, and contained 31 per cent, of magnetic grains. The 

 unpurified ore, which was mingled with a considerable amount of 

 quartz sand, and some garnet, amounting together to about 17 

 per cent., gave by analysis about 40 per cent, of iron, and 15 per 

 cent, of titanium, besides a proportion of manganese greater than 

 the iron sands from the lower St. Lawrence." 



We have not space to make extracts from the other reports, 

 which are chiefly filled with local details of great value as contri- 

 butions to the Geology of Canada, but afibrding few points of 

 popular interest. 



If any fault can be found with this Report, it is in the small 

 amount of Palaeontology which it contains ; but this, it may be 

 supposed, is to appear in the separate reports or decades of the 

 Palasontologist of the Survey. The present Report, it will be 

 observed, belongs to what may be called the transition period of 

 the Survey : the work done having been in great part under the 

 directorship of Sir William Logan, but the issue of the Report 

 being under that of Mr. Selwyn ; who will, no doubt, in the large 

 field now presented by the Dominion, prosecute the great work of 

 the Survey with renewed energy and success, and render it even 

 more creditable, if possible, to Canadian science. 



J. W. D. 



ON THE SURFACE GEOLOGY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 



By G. F. Matthew, Esq. 

 (Read before the Xatural History Society of Xew Brunswick, April, 1871.) 



PART I. — THE GLACIAL EPOCH. 



At the end of Prof. L. W. Bailey's Report on the Geology of 

 the Southern part of New Brunswick (Fredericton, 1865,), will 

 be found a few pages giving a very brief outline of its superficial 

 geology. I now propose to consider the subject at greater length, 

 and to record such observations as have been made in this region 

 since the date of that report. 



The Unmodified Drift being the most widely distributed of the 

 superficial deposits in this Province, and that from which the 

 materials of the later ones have been derived, a description of it 



