232 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [June 



REVIEW. 



GEOLOGY OF NEW BRUNSWICK.* 



It would appear from these reports that two surveys of the 

 Province of New Brunswick proceeded simultaneously, in the 

 summer of 1864; the one under Prof. Bailey being limited 

 to Southern New Brunswick, the other, under Prof. Hind, 

 embracing a general reconnoissance of the whole Province. It 

 results from this that some of the same subjects are discussed in 

 both reports, which must have occasioned some loss of time to the 

 observer, as it does to the reader. On the other hand the people 

 of New Brunswick have an opportunity of comparing the work of 

 their own geologists, Bailey, Matthew, and Hartt, with that of a 

 naturalist of some experience and of large and varied information. 



Without any invidious comparison, we may say that Prof. 

 Bailey's Report is distinguished for clearness, systematic arrange- 

 ment, and careful attention to details ; and that its execution must 

 have involved a large amount of laborious field-work. Prof. Hind's 

 is more discursive and popular in style, and in a less amount of 

 local facts brings to bear a great mass of varied information 

 derived from many sources. 



Passing by facts relating to economic geology, of which many 

 of great importance to New Brunswick are contained in these 

 reports, we may notice some points of interest in scientific 

 Geology. 



Prof. Hind thus describes the occurrence of the " Quebec 

 Group" of rocks in New Brunswick : — 



" The supposed northern boundary of this formation within the 

 limits of the Province, commences near the Medisco River on the 

 Bay de Chaleur. The strike of the rocks would carry them to 

 Ramsay's Brook on the Upsalquitch, and thence towards the head- 

 waters of the Tobique to the north of Nictau Lake. 



"A few miles from the mouth of the Tobique there are a series 



* 1. Observations on the Geology of Southern New Brunswick, made 

 principally by Professor D. W. Bailey, Messrs. George F. Matthew? 

 and C. F. Hartt ; prepared and arranged, with a Geologioal mapj 

 by L. W. Bailey, A.M., &c, &c. Pp. 158. 

 2. A Preliminary Report on the Geology of New Brunswick, together 

 with a special Report on the Distribution of the Quebec Group in 

 the Province ; by Henry Youle Hind, M.A., F.R.G.S., &c. Pp. 293- 



