VIIL—NoTES ON THE GEOLOGY AND Botany oF Dicsy NECK. 
By Pror, L. W. Baltey, Pu. D., F. R. 8. C., University 
of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N. B. 
(Read 10th December, 1894.) 
Of the more readily accessible portions of Nova Scotia there 
is probably none less frequently visited, or of which less is 
known by ordinary travellers, than the peninsula commonly 
known as Digby Neck. Thus, while hundreds or thousands are, 
in the course of every summer, whirled along the rails from 
Yarmouth to Digby, and vice versa, or are forced into expressions 
of admiration as they steam through the wonderful passage of 
Digby Gut, few ever think it worth while to visit and study 
the long, curious neck of land whose eastern end forms one of 
the pillars of that famous gateway, and which, stretching thence 
to the westward as a narrow and yet almost mountainous ridge, 
separates the waters of St. Mary’s Bay from those of the Bay of 
Fundy. Even professional naturalists and geologists, usually 
upon the alert for whatever is new or instructive in the world of 
nature, would seem in but few instances to have visited Digby 
Neck, except that portion immediately adjacent to the town of 
Digby, and observations upon its structure, physical features, 
mineral contents or floral characteristics, are alike few. And 
yet it may safely be said that, with the exception of Blomidon, no 
area of equal extent is to be found in Nova Scotia, and probably 
not in eastern America, which presents such peculiar features of 
scenery, geological structure, plant distribution, or mineral 
associations, as are here met with. 
It has hence been thought that the following notes, taken 
during a sojourn of several weeks upon the Neck, in connection 
with the work of the geological survey, may be of interest to the 
members of the Institute, and possibly encourage others to the 
task of its further exploration. 
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