GEOLOCIICAL WORK IN CANADA AND THE OLD WORLD. S 



paper read before the Victoria Institute, that the oldest cavern deposits, containing remains 

 of the horse and the rhinoceros, belong to a period in which the physical character of the 

 country was somewhat different from its present condition, and which may be charac- 

 terized as Post-glacial or Antediluvian. Other deposits come up to the time of the 

 Phenician colony. 



The subjects referred to in this paper have been but slightly sketched ; but it may be 

 interesting to bear in mind that w^e are workers together with so many able men on the 

 Eastern side of the Atlantic, whose works we may study, while we emulate their suc- 

 cessful labours. I cherish the hope at some future time to direct your attention more 

 specially to some at least of the subjects cursorily noticed in the present paper. 



