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Settlement, course 8. 24° E., (b) on road to St. Louis Mountain settlement, course $. 44° E. ; 
(3) at Black Cape, in several places, striæ and roches moutonnées, course S. 42° E. to S. 
45° E.; (4) at Port Daniel, roches moutonnées and grooves, course 8. 44 E.; and (5) between 
Port Daniel and Point Maquereau in numerous places, 8. 44° E. The absence of striæ in 
the coast district between Black Cape and Port Daniel is, perhaps, chiefly owing to the 
crumbling nature of the Lower Carboniferous sandstones which skirt it. These have not 
retained ice-marks, but boulder-clay is abundant, occurring in thick masses between Le 
Blanc and Little Bonaventure Rivers and elsewhere. It is here composed of the debris 
of the underlying rocks, with boulders from the Silurian and other formations in the 
interior interspersed through it. 
Coordinating all the facts relating to striæ in the Baie des Chaleurs basin, it appears 
that the local glacier, which occupied its western end, drew tributary glaciers from the 
valleys of the Restigouche, Scaumenar, Nouvelle, Cascapedia, ete. Those from the north 
side, coalescing with the main glacier of the Restigouche Valley pushed it over on the 
low-lying slopes on the south side of the bay, causing it to pursue a course diagonally 
across the coast area, or in some places nearly parallel to the shore line, as far east as 
Belledune Point. To the east of this, however, the glaciers seem to have slid down more 
directly into the bay, both from the north and from the south. 
The evidence which I have to present, showing a northward movement of ice on the 
southern slope of the St. Lawrence valley, is chiefly the result of observations made in 
the district between Rivière du Loup and Metis. As already intimated, it is important 
in its bearing on the general question of the glaciation of eastern Canada, and therefore I 
shall give the facts in some detail and in the order in which they came under notice, 
together with the data respecting the Pleistocene subsidence of the same region. 
(1) At Riviere du Loup, no striæ were observed. Terraces occur at different eleva- 
tions up to 350 feet or more, the Intercolonial Railway Station being ?221 feet high. In 
the valley lying between the railway station and Riviére du Loup village, in a terrace 
212 feet high, a well was being sunk, in which the following deposits were seen in 
descending order :—(1) Twelve to fifteen feet of coarse, stony gravel, somewhat like 
boulder-clay in the bottom, owing to the fact that the materials have been partly washed 
down from an adjacent, crumbling, rocky slope; and (2) dark, sandy clay, of unknown 
depth, containing, in the upper part, shells of Saxicava rugosa, Macoma Groenlandica, Mytilus 
edulis, and a species of Leda or Yoldia. 
(2) Along the road from Riviere du Loup to Cacouna village, a low ridge near the 
shore is seen to be highly glaciated, the agent producing the striæ having moved either 
up or down the valley, i.e., in a direction nearly parallel to the coast. Cacouna Station 
(263 feet high) stands on an extensive terrace, behind which others rise to a height of 345 
feet. Fine blown sand occurs in the upper terrace, and great numbers of eneissic and 
eranitic boulders, all well rounded, were seen along what must have formed an old shore 
line. 
(3) At St. Arsène Station (277 feet high), an extensive terrace, continuous with that 

! The heights given are above high tide level; those of the Intercolonial Railway stations were obtained from 
profiles in the office of the Railway Department, Ottawa, through the kindness of Mr. Collingwood Schreiber, Chief 
Engineer of Government Railways. 
