GLACIAL SUCCESSION IN CENTRAL LUNENBURG—PREST. 159 
height above the sea level is probably about 135 feet. The 
Lahave occupies a narrow pre-glacial valley, reaching 20 to 30 
feet below high tide, and flowing amid picturesque hills about 
200 feet high. The Rhodenizer Lake basin drains the highest 
part of the table-land and flows S. S. W. between morraines and 
kames until it reaches the estuary of the Lahave. The central 
part of this basin, at Blysteinner Lake, is 183 feet above mean 
tide level, while Rhodenizer’s Lake is 160 feet. The Cantiloup 
Lake basin drains the southern part of the tract under discus- 
sion, and is occupied and surrounded by morraines which have 
in some cases diverted the streams from their pre-glacial courses. 
At Dorey’s Brook, in this basin, work was done which disclosed 
several facts bearing on the glacial succession in this district. 
IT will now give a few sections which represent fairly the major- 
ity of those recorded by me. They are numbered to correspond 
with the glacial or inter-glacial epoch in which they are sup- 
posed to have originated. (See page 164.) 
DESCRIPTION OF DEPOSITS, 
Blockhouse.—The sections set down below are copied from a 
record kept on the spot, and taken down as the work of trench- 
ing and sinking proceeded. As those pits are sunk quite close 
to each other, the correlation of the deposits in this locality was 
not a very difficult matter. The sections of course differ as the 
position and depth of the pits showing them differed, but the 
corresponding layers in each section will be numbered alike 
regardless of their distance from top to bottom. The absence or 
presence of auriferous quartz in the upper layer was owing to 
its position in regard to the lead. If on the lead, the lower layer 
contained the gold-bearing quartz ; but if to the south-east, then 
the upper layer contained it. 
Section 1, beginning at the top, 15 feet deep. 
5, Clay and rocks, mostly local and much oxidized. 
4, Signs of denudation. 
8, Dark coloured boulder clay, including granite, quartzite, 
and other northern drift. 
