GOLD-BEARING ROCîKS OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 27 



It will thus seem that, alike iu their probable age, in their lithological aspects, in 

 their stratigraphical arrangement and in their mineral accompaniments, the resemblance 

 of the New Brunswick rocks in the districts described to those of the coast-belt of Nova 

 Scotia would be such as to warrant the belief that both are alike gold-bearing, even had 

 not the precious metal been proved to occur iu the former as well as iu the latter. It is 

 therefore highly desirable that further efforts be made, of a systematic kind and by com- 

 petent explorers, to ascertain to what extent the metal is present in the quartz-lodes of 

 New Brunswick, and, if possible, to make them the basis of profitable mining. The fact 

 that what are believed to be rocks of equivalent age are alike auriferous in Nova Scotia, 

 in New Brunswick and in Quebec, as well as in more remote regions, gives great encour- 

 agement to the belief that the probabilities referred to will eventually be confirmed. 



